Hello Nikolaus,

On 2014-04-16 14:50, Nikolaus Polak wrote:
> some of the users of 0nl1ne.at noticed me that connections to specific
> servers are not reliable since a few days (working only in one
> direction), and because I have no idea where this comes from (contacted
> already one admin of one of these servers, cluster.sx - he said he did
> only a openssl upgrade, and I updated the CaCert certificate for
> 0nl1ne.at), I'm writing now to this nice list.
> 
> (snip)
> 
> Any ideas?

I note that your other hosts has StartCom certificates, so this is
likely to do with CAcert.org.

Two things: CAcert.org has been removed from the default CAs in Debian¹
and Ubuntu² recently, so these might no longer be trusted by some host.
 However there's still Dialback, so this might not be noticed.

Secondly, CAcert.org recently switched to SHA2-512 signatures³, which
has been criticized⁴ because this there are known compatibility issues.

¹ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=718434
²
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/c/ca-certificates/ca-certificates_20130906ubuntu2/changelog
³ http://blog.cacert.org/2014/01/cacert-with-new-signature-algorithm/http://bridge.grumpy-troll.org/2014/03/cacert/

--
Kim "Zash" Alvefur

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