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authorNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2017-06-05 13:42:39 +0200
committerNikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>2017-06-05 13:43:10 +0200
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side caused by packets containing the ResponseID field. Reported
by Hubert Kario.
+** libgnutls: tolerate certificates which do not have strict DER time encoding.
+ It is possible using 3rd party tools to generate certificates with the time fields
+ that do not conform to DER requirements. Since 3.4.x these certificates are rejected
+ and cannot be used with GnuTLS, however that caused problems with existing private
+ certificate infrastructures, which were relying on such certificates (see gitlab
+ issue #196). Tolerate reading and using these certificates.
+
** minitasn1: updated to libtasn1 4.11.
** certtool: allow multiple certificates to be used in --p7-sign with