328731 - secnews.netscape.com - No Common Encryption Algorithm

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Security, defect)

Description

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060226 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060226 SeaMonkey/1.5a

SeaMonkey and secnews.netscape.com cannot communicate securely because
they have no common encryption algorithms. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add secnews news server (ssl port 563)
2.Attempt to subscribe to news groups
3.
Actual Results:  
Alert pops up saying SeaMonkey and secnews.netscape.com cannot communicate
securely because they have no common encryption algorithms. 


Expected Results:  
Subscribed to desired groups

Problem first appeared with CVS Thu Feb 23 03:13:29 EST 2006.  Prior CVS update
Fri Feb 17 15:06:57 EST 2006 worked perfectly.  Problem still exists as of Sun
Feb 26 12:47:05 EST 2006.

The 20060224 SeaMonkey nightly is not affected, nor is Mozilla 1.7.2.  

Initially reported https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328681 but advised to move to Core

Comment 1

[Rinaldi J. Montessi]

We learn:
bug 328681

Comment 2

[Joe Sabash [:JoeS1]]

Seeing this also in WinXP Pro on current seamonkey trunk and
Thunderburd version 1.6a1 (20060226)

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

see bug 236933 comment 51, -> invalid