On Thu, March 6, 2014 22:44, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2014-03-06 13:46:13 +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> A simple test with openssl s_client reveals that www.inria.fr has not
>> configured the correct certificate chain for the TCS certificates. This
>> needs to be taken up with the administrators of that website.
>
> I confirm for www.inria.fr and www.cnrs.fr (I've reported the problem
> to the sysadmins), but for other ones with a correct certificate
> chain, it doesn't work with lynx. Adding the TERENA SSL CA certificate
> to ca-certificates.crt solves the problem.
>
> Now, since this problem is specific to lynx, I suppose that this is
> more a bug with lynx itself. I've reported another bug:

Adding intermediate certificates to ca-certificates.crt works around a
problem in said applications. The root CA's as used by TCS are already in
ca-certificates.crt and the chains are published by the web server, so all
information is there. Any client that fails validation then is buggy.

>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740961

So this is indeed the best way forward.


Thijs


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