Re: [go-nuts] gopkg.in updated: snap, Let's Encrypt, etc

2016-11-02 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
There are some conversations in the wild related to that, but I have no proper information or opinion about it. The limitations I described are purely technical. The git binary in distributions as recent as 2014 linked with a gnutls library that was unable to take the available ciphers. It was wor

Re: [go-nuts] gopkg.in updated: snap, Let's Encrypt, etc

2016-11-02 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
> On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > > The problem was that git from very recent distributions linked against gnutls > and did not support elliptic curve certificates. > Did something happen that made elliptic curve certificates undesirable? -- You received this message be

[go-nuts] gopkg.in updated: snap, Let's Encrypt, etc

2016-11-02 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hello all, After complaints about the previous StartCom TLS certificate, it was moved over to Let's Encrypt's dynamic generation of certificates using the autocert package [1]. It's also been updated to be deployed as a snap [2], which means it's better confined inside its system and a bit easier