Hi Patrik
Thanks for the quick response.
I totally agree on your point. Our associates often used to try others
certificate .So I want to remove that threat also by incorporating MAC
address also into the certificates apart from the existing set up.
Often Wimax CPE vendors used to bind the MAC along with the certificate so
that ones certificate cannot be installed to another CPE.
I want to remove the risk of certificate stealing. Of course I am usin CRL
for revoking. Still want to know any possibility of adding MAC also to
certificate
Regards
Anoop C
Access Network Engineering
Sify Technologies Ltd.
Chennai
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Patrick Patterson
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MAC address binding to the certificate
Hi there:
Anoop C wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am using certificates generated by openssl for authenticating the
> WiFi useres using EAP-TLS 802.1x authentication.
> I would like to add MAC address of the user machines into each user
> certificates so that the certificates used by one machine cannot be used
in
> another machine/PC.
>
> Could anyone please help how to create certificate with MAC address
> binded to it.
>
I think that you may want to revisit your assumptions here - it is
rather trivial to spoof a MAC address, so basing your security on that
is not very good.
Besides, as long as the user has a valid certificate, why do you care
which machine they log in from? If you can't trust the holder of the
certificate to keep it safe, then you have a different set of issues
that MAC address binding will not save you from.
Have fun.
Patrick.
> Regards
> Anoop
>
>
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