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From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: SSL-enabled protocols
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:54:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluhdccrwo2.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmq5s5nh.fsf@myxomop.com> (Alexander Kotelnikov's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:28:34 +0400")

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?

I have fixed gnutls-cli so that if you supply a --x509cafile or
--pgptrustdb parameter, and the server certificate validation fails,
the program will terminate.  So you should be able to use tomorrow's
GnuTLS snapshot with Gnus to achieve what you want.  I can't help you
with nntps.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-23  8:54 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2005-09-23 10:57   ` Alexander Kotelnikov

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