[Bug 446392] New: SSL error: Key usage violation

Joe Orton jorton at redhat.com
Fri May 23 13:05:11 CEST 2008


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 05:19:10PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Joe Orton <jorton at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm about to go on holiday so won't be able to look into this myself for 
> > a week or so; Fedora 9 ships with GnuTLS 2.0.4, but I can reproduce this 
> > with the slightly stale git checkout I had lying around, so I'd suspect 
> > this is a GnuTLS cert validation bug?
> >
> > $ ./bin/gnutls-cli svn.eionet.europa.eu
> > Resolving 'svn.eionet.europa.eu'...
> > Connecting to '217.74.209.183:443'...
> > *** Fatal error: Key usage violation in certificate has been detected.
> > *** Handshake has failed
> 
> Hi.  Thanks for the report.  Without further information, I believe that
> is the correct behavior.

Thanks a lot for looking into this!  The user has now fixed the server 
cert.

joe





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