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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gwene fingerprint changed
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:56:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bldv4atq.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bldvri6l.fsf@gmail.com> (Prateek Sadhukhan's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:58:34 +0530")

Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I searched over the net but could not find anything related so here goes.
>
> I access my newsgroups using news.gwene.org. Offlate when I start gnus,
> I am getting a message that the fingerprint has changed and whether I want
> to still connect. It gives me an option whether I want to accept the
> certificate only for this session or permanently etc.
>
> Is this anything to worry about?

That means that the certificate that news.gwene.org has changed, as it
does every 3 months. If the message youʼre getting identifies the
certificate as belonging to gwene.org, then youʼre ok. If not, someone
might be trying to intercept traffic, or thereʼs a misconfigured https
proxy in the middle somewhere.

Robert


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-11 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-11  8:28 Prateek Sadhukhan
2021-01-11 17:56 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2021-01-11 18:16 ` James Cloos
2021-01-12  8:12   ` Prateek Sadhukhan

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