Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Thanks. > > My boss is not technical. I am the CTO of this product. Our customers are > your basic commercial customers. Yes, I picture that they would be their own > CA. Why pay Verisign if you don't have a bunch of people sitting at their >

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-11 Thread Charles Mills
ginal Message- > From: Charles Mills [mailto:charl...@mcn.org] > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 9:52 AM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Best practice for client cert name checking > > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server > code t

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-10 Thread Dave Thompson
o:charl...@mcn.org] > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 9:52 AM > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Best practice for client cert name checking > > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS > server code that > processes client certificates. I desig

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
oth the client and server can perform the additional validations. Jeff > -Original Message- > From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org > [mailto:owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 11:13 AM > To: OpenSSL Users List >

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Charles Mills
sl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 11:13 AM To: OpenSSL Users List Subject: Re: Best practice for client cert name checking On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 07:42:04AM +, Marco Molteni (mmolteni) wrot

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 07:42:04AM +, Marco Molteni (mmolteni) wrote: >> try searching for "certificate pinning". If you are familiar with ssh, it >> is the same concept of the StrictHostKeyChecking option (although >> obviously SSH and TLS

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 07:42:04AM +, Marco Molteni (mmolteni) wrote: > try searching for "certificate pinning". If you are familiar with ssh, it > is the same concept of the StrictHostKeyChecking option (although > obviously SSH and TLS are completely distinct protocols and by default SSH > do

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Charles Mills
Dave, any thoughts on my original question? My thread kind of got hi-jacked. Charles -Original Message- From: Charles Mills [mailto:charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 9:52 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Best practice for client cert name checking I have

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-08 Thread Marco Molteni (mmolteni)
On 06.10.2012 23:41 , "Charles Mills" wrote: >Thanks. I'm a relative newbie to this whole topic. Can you point me to a >resource that describes "pin" in the sense you use it below? The word is >too common for the Google to be much help. try searching for "certificate pinning". If you are famili

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-07 Thread Dave Thompson
> From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton > Sent: Saturday, 06 October, 2012 19:11 > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Charles Mills > wrote: > > Thanks. I'm a relative newbie to this whole topic. Can you > point me to a resource that describes "pin" in the sense you >

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-07 Thread Charles Mills
0:38 AM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Best practice for client cert name checking On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server > code that processes client certificates. I designed what I thought >

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-07 Thread Ben Laurie
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server code that > processes client certificates. I designed what I thought made sense at the > time but now I am wondering if what I did was best. > > In the product's configuration

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
penssl-users@openssl.org > Subject: Re: Best practice for client cert name checking > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Charles Mills wrote: >> I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server >> code that processes client certificates. I designed what I t

RE: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-06 Thread Charles Mills
wner-openssl-us...@openssl.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Walton Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2012 4:40 PM To: openssl-users@openssl.org Subject: Re: Best practice for client cert name checking On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/

Re: Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server code that > processes client certificates. I designed what I thought made sense at the > time but now I am wondering if what I did was best. > > In the product's configuration

Best practice for client cert name checking

2012-10-06 Thread Charles Mills
I have recently written a product that incorporates SSL/TLS server code that processes client certificates. I designed what I thought made sense at the time but now I am wondering if what I did was best. In the product's configuration file the sysadmin may optionally include a whitelist of client