
Greetings, I'm aware Hugh and some people's interest in seeing a possible GCC Rust Front-end if possible. Seems some companies are working on funding people to work on it full time: https://opnsrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding Cheers, Nick

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:27:38PM -0500, Nicholas Krause via talk wrote:
Greetings,
I'm aware Hugh and some people's interest in seeing a possible GCC Rust Front-end if possible. Seems some companies are working on funding people to work on it full time:
https://opnsrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding
thanks for the link. typo in the URL, though. this seems to be it: https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding hope that helps -- D. Joe

| From: D. Joe via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | thanks for the link. typo in the URL, though. this seems to be it: | | https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding I noticed they type and tried that, but my firefox disliked that site: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to opensrcsec.com. Unsupported hash algorithm used by TLS peer. Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_HASH_ALGORITHM The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 11:01, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: D. Joe via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| thanks for the link. typo in the URL, though. this seems to be it: | | https://opensrcsec.com/open_source_security_announces_rust_gcc_funding
I noticed they type and tried that, but my firefox disliked that site:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to opensrcsec.com. Unsupported hash algorithm used by TLS peer.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_HASH_ALGORITHM
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified. Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
There's always a certain amount of comedy in security-related sites that get blocked based on security problems. 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. 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. -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com

| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@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.

On 1/13/21 2:10 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Giles Orr via talk <talk@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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Nicholas Krause