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@wking wking commented Apr 30, 2020

Because errors like:

certificate signed by unknown authority

make it difficult to distinguish between "certificate is unexpected"
and "my local trust store is missing something I expected". This
commit adds a fallback with summaries for the subject and issuer when
hintErr is missing (e.g. because nothing in the local trust store
matched). That should also help figure out which of many possible
certificates need fixing when trust-management breaks down.

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wking commented Dec 27, 2021

@heschi, details about why this was closed? Looks like it still applies, and seems like useful detail as I pointed out in my initial comment here. Anything I can do to help get some movement in this direction landed?

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Reopening.

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wking commented Feb 17, 2025

@seankhliao, do you have more context on why you closed this? I'm happy to rebase if that makes review easier whenever there's capacity to review :)

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Reopening.

@wking wking force-pushed the unknown-authority-details branch from 62c3b8c to 89b1047 Compare February 18, 2025 16:15
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Message from Ian Lance Taylor:

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wking commented Feb 18, 2025

After Ian re-opened, GitHub did detect a conflct in the import section. I've rebased onto the current dev-tip with 62c3b8c -> 89b1047.

Because errors like:

  certificate signed by unknown authority

make it difficult to distinguish between "certificate is unexpected"
and "my local trust store is missing something I expected".  This
commit adds a fallback with summaries for the subject and issuer when
hintErr is missing (e.g. because nothing in the local trust store
matched).  That should also help figure out which of many possible
certificates need fixing when trust-management breaks down.
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