Hello,

We would love a test case to add to the test suite.

We are building a new test suite as part of this work anyways.

MIguel

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) <
edward.harvey.m...@clevertrove.com> wrote:

> > From: Miguel de Icaza [mailto:mig...@xamarin.com]
> >
> > .NET's implementation of the TLS stack is built on top of native code,
> so it
> > wont work on Mono.
> >
> > We have implemented TLS 1.1 and 1.2 on top of the not yet open sourced
> > networking stack and will be publishing it as soon as Microsoft open
> sources
> > the .NET networking stack.
>
> Great news, thank you!  A follow-up question:
>
> In the current released version of mono SslStream, if the server uses a
> cert that is signed by an intermediate chain, *and* a mono SslStream client
> connects, then the client rejects the cert.  The root cause is because the
> server does not send the intermediate chain to the client, and the client
> fails to construct the chain.  The behavior is specifically a mono-mono
> incompatibility - If either the server or the client is .Net, then the
> problem does not occur, because a windows server sends the chain to the
> client, and a windows client performs guerilla tactics to construct an
> incomplete chain.
>
> So the question is, how could it be possible to add a test for this
> behavior, presuming it will some day get fixed and then we don't want it to
> happen again?
>
> I can easily enough write example code to demonstrate the problem.  But
> then there's a question about what cert to use for demonstration purposes -
> it's probably best to create a junk CA with intermediate cert, and some
> junk server cert.  I could easily enough publish those certs somewhere
> and/or hard-code them into the demonstration code, with something like 30
> year validity.
>
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