On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:42 AM <debian-u...@howorth.org.uk> wrote:

> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> wrote:
> > On 28/07/2023 17:04, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > I have an AppImage from Creality which segfaults with a QT ssl
> > > error. Googling tells me that the latest version of OpenSSL (3.x)
> > > omits some X509 functionality, which can be found in OpenSSL-1.1.
> > > (And someone reports that installing it solves the problem.) But I
> > > can't find that package. Is there any way to revert to an earlier
> > > version of OpenSSL? I'm on an up-to-date bookworm system.
> >
> > AppImages bundle all the libraries used by the application, so
> > changing the "system" version of openssl probably won't work.
>
> It sounds like you need to contact Creality to update the AppImage.
> Although
>
> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/creality-slicer-appimage-not-loading-qt-network-ssl-errors/143726
> suggests that the AppImage does not contain the OpenSSL library.
>
> But the only 'omission' of X.509 functionality that I can see on
> https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-3.0-notes.html is
> "X509 certificates signed using SHA1 are no longer allowed at security
> level 1 or higher. The default security level for TLS is 1, so
> certificates signed using SHA1 are by default no longer trusted to
> authenticate servers or clients."
>
> I'm not sure I'd want to be deliberately trying to undo a security
> upgrade.
>
> I'm sure you're right. Contacting Creality is a fool's game; they've been
alerted to the problem since they released the software, so I'll just have
to be patient.

Thanks to all for your suggestions.

Patrick

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