Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-23 Thread Rainer Gerhards
> I forgot to mention: guessing is good, verifying is better. I'll bring > up this question on the syslog WG mailing list. I got the answer right from the source: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/syslog/current/msg01915.html Rainer ___ dev-tech-cry

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 23, 8:34 am, Rainer Gerhards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 20, 10:38 pm, Badra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > Fingerprint-based is not secure within TLS, not specified anywhere, and it > > is an hack. > > Well, it actually is (somewhat), right there in the PSK RFC, section >

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 20, 10:38 pm, Badra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Fingerprint-based is not secure within TLS, not specified anywhere, and it > is an hack. Well, it actually is (somewhat), right there in the PSK RFC, section 1.1: If the main goal is to avoid Public-Key Infrastructures (PKIs),

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi Nelson, many thanks for your very useful reply. Comments inline... On May 22, 12:41 am, Nelson B Bolyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer Gerhards wrote, > > >>> [snip] I would like to authenticate > >>> remote peers via custom authentication layed out in the standard. This > >>> is fingerp

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
On May 23, 12:39 am, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nelson, > > Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > > >>> Right now there is no such callback available in NSS' libssl to do what > >>> you want. > > > Maybe I misunderstand the request, but I believe that libSSL offers exactly

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-22 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Nelson, Nelson B Bolyard wrote: > >>> Right now there is no such callback available in NSS' libssl to do what >>> you want. > > Maybe I misunderstand the request, but I believe that libSSL offers exactly > what Rainer has requested. The way I read it, he wanted to do some "custom authentication

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-21 Thread Nelson B Bolyard
Rainer Gerhards wrote, >>> [snip] I would like to authenticate >>> remote peers via custom authentication layed out in the standard. This >>> is fingerprint-based, very similar to SSHs leap of faith auth. "Leap of faith auth". That's the perfect name of SSH's authentication. Did you coin that p

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-21 Thread Badra
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer, > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > Hi group, > > > > my apologies for not reading through all the docs. I have a hopefully > > quick question and would like some short feedback before I go down >

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-21 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Hi Julien, thanks for your reply, much appreciated. Coments inline below... On May 20, 10:18 pm, Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rainer, > > my apologies for not reading through all the docs. I have a hopefully > > quick question and would like some short feedback

Re: verifying peer identity during handshake

2008-05-20 Thread Julien R Pierre - Sun Microsystems
Rainer, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > Hi group, > > my apologies for not reading through all the docs. I have a hopefully > quick question and would like some short feedback before I go down > into all the specifics. I am working on the implementation of an > upcoming TLS protected syslog standard. I