[GTALUG] Rust Frontend Funding in GCC News

[Nicholas Krause]

On 1/13/21 2:10 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> | From: Giles Orr via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
> 
> |   This site fails to load
> | in FF on Linux - but works fine in FF, Chrome and Safari on Mac.  It
> | also works in Chromium on Linux.
> 
> Wow.
> 
> | It doesn't appear to be a TLS version issue as I first guessed ... if
> | only I'd read the "error code" I would have known better, but TLS
> | version issues are commonest.  Sorry, I guess I don't have much to
> | add, but site encryption issues like this always interest me as I
> | spent a fair bit of time learning about site encryption ... and this
> | is still beyond me.
> 
> I don't spend any time trying to understand TLS.
> 
> - I was under the impression TLS expects that the cipher suite will
>    be negotiated (totally? partially?).  If so, is there a tool that
>    lets one observe this negotiation?
> 
> - my most frequent problem is with expired certificates.  When this
>    happens, Firefox lets you accept the cert anyway, if you ask it to.
> 
> - the error message I got offered no useful alternatives and it didn't
>    say what HASH algorithm it didn't support.
> 
> - is there a commonly used TLS hash which requires licensing?
> 
> - I can wget the web page and then look at it with Firefox on Linux.
> ---

Sorry about the typo if it's easier for you guys this is the official 
repo with the reports as well:
https://github.com/Rust-GCC/Reporting

I also tried it on firefox and the link seems to be working now for me.

Not sure what's occurring if there are still issues for you,
Nick
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