Thanks Dan/Ludwig.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ludwig Nussel [mailto:ludwig.nus...@suse.de] 
Sent: 20 March 2012 13:39
To: networkmanager-list@gnome.org
Cc: John Carter
Subject: Re: Query on setting ca-path and ca-cert with dbus for 802.1x

Dan Williams wrote:
> [...]
> has payed say Verisign to sign their organization-wide CA, which they 
> then use to sign the server's certificate.
> [...]
> Always set a CA certificate, and optionally set the subject match 
> stuff

Subject match is mandatory in that case. When setting the CA alone you are
still prone to MITM (CVE-2006-7246).

cu
Ludwig

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