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bug#13877: 24.3; gnutls.el: Enable Certificate Checks
From: |
Moritz Ulrich |
Subject: |
bug#13877: 24.3; gnutls.el: Enable Certificate Checks |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:40:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 0.9.9; emacs 24.3.1 |
Currently, gnutls.el doesn't check certificate signatures when used via
`open-network-stream' with :type 'tls or `open-gnutls-stream'.
This is caused by the following code from `open-gnutls-stream'
(gnutls.el:110):
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(gnutls-negotiate :process (open-network-stream name buffer host service)
:type 'gnutls-x509pki
:hostname host)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
There is NO way to set :verify-host, :verify-flags, etc. for this call
to `gnutls-negotiate' when using gnutls via high-level functions like
`open-network-stream'.
I consider this a bug, as Emacs won't check any certificates and
therefore allow man in the middle attacks without even documenting this.
It should at least be possible to pass :verify-* from
`open-network-stream' down to `gnutls-negotiate'. That would be a simple
yet effective solution.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin11.4.2, NS apple-appkit-1138.51)
of 2013-03-05 on Moritzs-MacBook-Air
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1138
Configured using:
`configure '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.3-rc1' '--without-dbus'
'--enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp'
'--infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/24.3-rc1/share/info/emacs'
'--with-ns' '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--with-gnutls' '--with-jpeg'
'--with-xml2' '--with-imagemagick' 'CC=cc''
<#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign>
--
Moritz Ulrich
- bug#13877: 24.3; gnutls.el: Enable Certificate Checks,
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