Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Florian Weimer: Would those who have an interest in this topic please test the patch in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=97;bug=514807;mbox=yes and report if it improves things for them? Thanks. For the record, it's very likely that we are soon to release updates with

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-16 Thread Florian Weimer
Would those who have an interest in this topic please test the patch in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=97;bug=514807;mbox=yes and report if it improves things for them? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/13/2009 08:46 AM, Bastian Blank wrote: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. Yesterday several people started to

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Brian May
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Are there any concrete proposals for how to deal with this systematically within debian without leaving GnuTLS users in lenny perpetually gullible to MD5-based forgeries, or improperly-trusted V1 certificates? Unless you want to fix openssl, Firefox, etc, Lenny

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. Yesterday several

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bastian Blank: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. GNUTLS has rejected RSA-MD5 signatures in X.509 certificate chains

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-02-14 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Bastian Blank: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. GNUTLS has

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Brian May
Florian Weimer wrote: Yesterday several people started to complain that they could not longer connect to their ldap servers, many of them using pam-ldap and nss-ldap. A quick look showed certificates in the chain which was signed with MD5. Are you sure this isn't #514807? Also see

Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-13 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. Yesterday several people started to complain that they could not longer connect