Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Marvin Gülker
Hi everyone, thank you for your explanations. I'm still fairly new to this so thank you for your patience...! Am Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:25:11 +0100 schrieb Dave Cridland : > Yes, in RFC 5280, RFC 6125, and RFC 6120. But they're relatively tough > reading (especially 5280). I'm out for a longer read

Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Dave Cridland
On 20 July 2016 at 10:15, Dave Cridland wrote: > > > On 20 July 2016 at 10:07, Simon Josefsson wrote: > >> Sam Whited writes: >> >> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Simon Josefsson >> wrote: >> >> I wonder if people really care about this usage any more -- it does not >> >> scale well (all d

Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Dave Cridland
On 20 July 2016 at 10:07, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Sam Whited writes: > > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Simon Josefsson > wrote: > >> I wonder if people really care about this usage any more -- it does not > >> scale well (all domains have to be encoded in the same cert => big > >> certs)

Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Simon Josefsson
Sam Whited writes: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> I wonder if people really care about this usage any more -- it does not >> scale well (all domains have to be encoded in the same cert => big >> certs) and introduces an indirection which often leaves room for >> att

Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Dave Cridland
On 20 July 2016 at 08:58, Florian Schmaus wrote: > For the near future, I hope that certificates using only srvNames will > become more common. But if you want to stay super "compatible" with all > sorts of XMPP software out there, then you probably want to put your > XMPP domain in the CN too. W

Re: [Operators] Obtaining XMPP-enabled certificate for server

2016-07-20 Thread Florian Schmaus
On 19.07.2016 18:36, Marvin Gülker wrote: > Am Tue, 19 Jul 2016 16:15:40 +0200 > schrieb Florian Schmaus : >> Isn't one problem that a cert with CN "example.org" will be valid for >> all services found on example.org (simply speaking), whereas when >> using SRV-ID restricts the cert to a particular