Re: [RFC/PATCH] send-email: die if CA path doesn't exist

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:12:07PM +0000, John Keeping wrote:

> If the CA path isn't found it's most likely to indicate a
> misconfiguration, in which case accepting any certificate is unlikely to
> be the correct thing to do.

Yeah, this seems like a crazy default for security-sensitive code.

I suspect some people will see breakage from applying this (because
their systems are broken and they did not know it), but that is a good
thing.

For people who know their systems are broken and want to proceed anyway,
what is the appropriate work-around? Obviously it involves disabling
peer verification, but would we want to include instructions for doing
so (either in the error message, or perhaps mentioning it in the commit
message)?

-Peff
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