From: Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@myxomop.com>
Subject: Re: SSL-enabled protocols
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:57:06 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vf0s6ohp.fsf@vinci.loc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iluhdccrwo2.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:54:53 +0200
>>>>> "SJ" == Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> wrote:
SJ>
SJ> Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@myxomop.com> writes:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Can anyone clarify to me, how should one use imaps/nntps? I belive,
>> openssl/gnutsl-cli usage for opening these connections is absolutely
>> unacceptable, since these programs maintain a connection even if
>> certificates check fails. I use stunnel for imaps, but for
>> not-still-investigated reasons it does not work for nntps. Is there any
>> other ways?
SJ>
SJ> I have fixed gnutls-cli so that if you supply a --x509cafile or
SJ> --pgptrustdb parameter, and the server certificate validation fails,
SJ> the program will terminate. So you should be able to use tomorrow's
SJ> GnuTLS snapshot with Gnus to achieve what you want. I can't help you
SJ> with nntps.
Oh, thanks. This should help with nntps either, even an approach used
in stunnel (when user can tell in what conditions to abort a
connection) seems to be more elegant.
--
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-22 11:28 Alexander Kotelnikov
2005-09-23 8:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-09-23 10:57 ` Alexander Kotelnikov [this message]
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