[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arnaud Ebalard) writes:

>>>> "This software does not have any authentication capabilities: it does
>>>> not allow you to authenticate your peer, which is a basic requirement
>>>> for TLS/SSL to be used securely. You should only use it for testing
>>>> purposes and not relaying important information. Be aware that you are
>>>> vulnerable to MITM when using it"
>>
>> That seems correct to me.
>>
>> Note that even if you use gnutls-cli, you need to configure it to use
>> appropriate trust anchors to get full security.
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I hope you mean "a working setup". If you do not provide it any (set of)
> trust anchor, it should not be able to verify server's certificate and
> should fail, shouldn't it?

Right, and that's what I meant with "you need to configure it to use
appropriate trust anchors".  If you do that, you should get full
security (whatever that means).

/Simon



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