elinks and links2 don't verify ssl certificates at all on debian 8
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- Subject: elinks and links2 don't verify ssl certificates at all on debian 8
- From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:30:46 +0200
- Message-id: <20160321143046.GC733@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Slightly paraphrased from the cypherpunks mailing list:
https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2016-March/012574.html
[OT] Would someone please check if links2 and elinks verify
certificates on clean install of Debian 8?
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...elinks and links2 don't verify ssl certificates at all
on Debian 8 (this got confirmation in the thread)
To verify, try to open site which doesn't properly chain to trusted
root, say https://cacert.org (unless you trust their root ) and check
if it opens or there is error/warning.
For me, on updated system, both don't verify certificates.
Looks like at least ubuntu and fedora killed the elinks bug long ago.
Searching the web for "$browser self signed certificate" shows some
relevant results.
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Sarcastic comment asks "when debian will learn about this".
Will leave this list soon.
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