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[Discuss] SSL problems with imapfilter after upgrade to Debian 11



On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 16:09:35 -0400
Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> That seems like a very odd thing to do.  The server certificate is
> provided as part of the TLS handshake, every single time you connect.
> There is no point in caching it for performance reasons.  Maybe they
> are trying to do a poor-man's certificate pinning, and their
> implementation is bad?  That's the only thing I can think of that
> would make storing the server cert useful in any way.

Apparently so:

     certificates
             When this option is enabled, the server certificate can be
             accepted and stored, in order to validate the authenticity
             of the server in future connections. This variable takes a
             boolean as a value. Default is ?true?.

-- 
Rich Pieri



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