On 01/11/13 10:46, Maxim Dounin wrote:
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I'm afraid it's a much larger patch than I anticipated it would be
when I started working on it!

Maxim, does this patch look commit-able?

Maxim, thanks for your initial comments.

It looks like it needs to be broken down into a patch series to
be at least reviewable.

I thought you might say that. Is it acceptable for there to be compilation errors if you only apply some of the patches in a patch series? (I was assuming that would be unacceptable, hence the one large patch).

I haven't looked into details yet, but I tend to dislike at least
changing the ngx_ssl_certificate() function into a monster which
configures everything.  Preserving a separate call to configure
stapling would be much better.

I had hoped to keep those calls separate, but I couldn't see a clean way to keep track of multiple server certs plus associated issuer certs inbetween the calls to ngx_ssl_certificate() and ngx_ssl_stapling(). By combining the certificate configuration and stapling configuration functions, I made this problem go away.

To preserve ngx_ssl_certificate() and ngx_ssl_stapling() as separate functions, I think I'd have to: - change ngx_ssl_certificate_index to keep an array (either ngx_array_t or STACK_OF) of server certs. - have ngx_ssl_certificate() put all of the intermediate CA certificates it encounters into a temporary cert store; have ngx_ssl_stapling() look in this temporary cert store for issuer certificates; then destroy the temporary cert store.

Would that be preferable?  Or do you have any better ideas?

Checks for extra ceritifcate chains with unsupported OpenSSL
versions looks a bit too extensive.  I would think of just
dropping them completely.

OK, (assuming you mean drop the checks, rather than drop support for those OpenSSL versions!)

--
Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online

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