On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 09:09:32PM +0100, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:47:11PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > the attached patch implements wildcard matching and introduces the
> > > X509_CHECK_FLAG_NO_WILDCARDS flag to disable it if necessary.
> > > 
> > > In addition, it implements case-insensitive comparison of host names
> > > and email address domain parts, as required by RFC 5280.  Domain
> > > names and email addresses which contain NUL characters are now
> > > rejected, to cope with some mis-issued certificates.
> > 
> > It would be nice if s_client would also did the hostname check.
> > 
> 
> There is an option -checkhost in s_client that does this though currently you
> have to explicitly pass the hostname to check as an argument.

Oh, I didn't see that commit yet.  The usage of s_client doesn't
show it.

It would be nice if this was actually turned on by defaults and
based on the host giving in -connect.

It would also be nice that it uses the protocol specific settings
based on something like -starttls.


Kurt

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