Bug#513922: Fails to verify good(?) signature

Joachim Breitner nomeata at debian.org
Sun Feb 8 13:38:36 UTC 2009


Hi, 

Am Samstag, den 07.02.2009, 19:37 +0100 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just uploaded 2.4.2-6 (which is basically 2.4.3 without all the
> > changes from autogenerated files for easier review.) to unstable. This
> > should fix (workaround) your problem, since it makes t possible to
> > trust the intermediate cert.
> 
> Thanks.  I can confirm that it solves the problem:
> 
> jas at mocca:~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/bin/gnutls-cli -VV fry.serverama.de -p 443 --x509cafile /usr/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org/root.crt 
> ...
> - Peer's certificate is NOT trusted
> 
> Which is correct since the chain contains a RSA-MD5 signature.  (The
> better error message is not printed here though, that change was not
> back-ported.)
> 
> Trying it again with the intermediate cert works fine:
> 
> jas at mocca:~$ LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnutls.so /usr/bin/gnutls-cli -VV fry.serverama.de -p 443 --x509cafile /usr/share/ca-certificates/cacert.org/class3.crt 
> ...
> - Peer's certificate is trusted
> 
> So I think everything works as expected now.
> 
> So, shouldn't this bug be marked as fixed with 2.4.2-6?

Yes, it’s fine from my side. Thanks for fixing it.

Greetings,
Joachim

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