From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: tls-program
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:47:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37hihzkus.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4mh1vfv.fsf@randomsample.de>
David Engster <deng@randomsample.de> writes:
> gnutls-cli accepts self-signed certificates by default:
>
> - The hostname in the certificate matches 'mydomain.foobar'.
> - Peer's certificate issuer is unknown
> - Peer's certificate is NOT trusted
One of the servers had a self-signed expired certificate, which made
gnutls-cli abort...
> However, a hostname mismatch is not tolerated, and can only be
> overridden with --insecure. This shouldn't be the default,
> though. Openssl indeed always continues by default, but I think a
> hostname mismatch should at least be warned about.
Querying the user, and then saving the result of the query would be the
best compromise between usability and security here, I think.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-19 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-18 22:29 tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 22:44 ` tls-program Ludovic Courtès
2010-09-18 22:46 ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 22:51 ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 22:58 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-18 23:05 ` tls-program Sebastian Krause
2010-09-18 23:47 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 4:20 ` tls-program Daniel Pittman
2010-09-19 12:25 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 13:21 ` tls-program Steinar Bang
2010-09-19 13:27 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 17:42 ` tls-program David Engster
2010-09-19 17:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2010-09-20 14:53 ` tls-program Ted Zlatanov
2010-09-21 16:11 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 15:48 ` tls-program Frank Schmitt
2010-09-19 15:58 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 8:48 ` tls-program Tibor Simko
2010-09-19 12:28 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 12:29 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-09-19 19:17 ` tls-program James Cloos
2010-09-19 19:15 ` tls-program James Cloos
2010-09-19 19:21 ` tls-program Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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