From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gwene fingerprint changed
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:16:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zh1f49ve.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bldvri6l.fsf@gmail.com> (Prateek Sadhukhan's message of "Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:58:34 +0530")
>>>>> "PS" == Prateek Sadhukhan <psadhukh@gmail.com> writes:
PS> I access my newsgroups using news.gwene.org. Offlate when I start gnus,
PS> I am getting a message that the fingerprint has changed and whether I want
PS> to still connect.
PS> Is this anything to worry about?
no.
they use lets encrypt for the tls certs, which update every two to three
months. most le clients also create new private keys for each new cert,
to improve security.
it is normal for gnus to make that request every couple of months or so.
-JimC
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James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-11 18:17 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
2021-01-11 18:16 ` James Cloos [this message]
2021-01-12 8:12 ` Prateek Sadhukhan
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