Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:43:10 +0200
> 
> >>  . First, the NEWS entry should tell users how to get the previous
> >>    (less secure) behavior if they want.  I think this also calls for a
> >>    better documentation of the elements that can appear in
> >>    network-security-protocol-checks.
> >>
> >>  . The change to gnutls-peer-status is not reflected in its doc string
> >>    and is not called out in NEWS.
> >
> > Yes, true.  I'll do that later this week.
> 
> That was a ...  12 day week or something.  :-)

Yeah, gimme 12-day weeks! with 50-hour days on top of that!

> I've now pushed these doc fixes, and tried to explain better what these
> checks do.  Hopefully it's not total gobbledegook -- trying to explain
> TLS stuff without resorting to writing acronym soup (that only explains
> things to people who already understands this stuff) isn't trivial.  :-)

It isn't gobbledegook for me, so I guess we are fine.

Thanks!