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bug#9017: 24.0.50; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: Key usage violatio


From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
Subject: bug#9017: 24.0.50; gnutls.c: [0] (Emacs) fatal error: Key usage violation in certificate has been detected.
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:19:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> (setq starttls-extra-arguments '("--priority" "normal:-dhe-rsa"))
>
> I presume that users of MUAs like Outlook don't need to go through so
> much trouble, so it should be possible for Emacs to similarly find the
> magic incantation without the user having to get into such details.

You'd hope.  But when researching the error message this user got, I
found the same error message from a Thunderbird user, I think it was.
The problem is basically a somewhat invalid certificate being served up
by the server.  The recommended way to fix that is to fix the server.

But, yes, I hope we can do better.  If one cipher (or whatever this is
:-) fails, why not try the other ones automatically instead of failing
completely?  You'd imagine that would be doable...

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