Teo En Ming recently tried sending emails to Reuters News Agency but received an OpenSSL error

[Matt Caswell]

On 17/11/2023 13:07, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via openssl-users 
wrote:
> Subject: Teo En Ming recently tried sending emails to Reuters News Agency but received an OpenSSL error
> 
> Good day from Singapore,
> 
> I have recently tried to send emails to Reuters News Agency (among a total of 27 international news media outlets) but received the following OpenSSL error.
> 
> Message not delivered
> 
> There was a problem delivering your message to contact at go.reuters.com. See the technical details below or try resending in a few minutes.
> 
> The response was:
> 
> TLS Negotiation failed: FAILED_PRECONDITION: starttls error (71): 6503550773440:error:1000012e:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:KEY_USAGE_BIT_INCORRECT:third_party/openssl/boringssl/src/ssl/ssl_cert.cc:605:
> 
> What does this mean? What is boringssl?

BoringSSL is Google's fork of OpenSSL. You should address any questions 
regarding it to that project instead:

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl

Matt