real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Florin Andrei
I'm setting up SASL with TLS for remote clients. As an additional security measure, I would like the server to ask the email clients to present their client certificates. According to the docs, this is accomplished with: smtpd_tls_ask_ccert = yes But there are some ominous warnings about

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/8/21 Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org: I'm setting up SASL with TLS for remote clients. As an additional security measure, I would like the server to ask the email clients to present their client certificates. According to the docs, this is accomplished with: smtpd_tls_ask_ccert =

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Florin Andrei
Barney Desmond wrote: Of course, you couldn't enforce this except on a non-public-facing system, or on the submission port (587). Actually, that's exactly what I just did. I configured a separate listener on 587 and moved all TLS stuff to it. I was reluctant to do so at first (the client is

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org: I'm setting up SASL with TLS for remote clients. As an additional security measure, I would like the server to ask the email clients to present their client certificates. According to the docs, this is accomplished with: smtpd_tls_ask_ccert = yes

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Noel Jones
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Aug 20 22:49:01 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: connect from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: Anonymous TLS connection established from

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:09:52AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Aug 20 22:49:01 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: connect from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Noel Jones
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:09:52AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Aug 20 22:49:01 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: connect from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: setting up TLS connection from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Noel Jones: Victor Duchovni wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 06:09:52AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Aug 20 22:49:01 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: connect from unknown[XXX.YYY.ZZZ.KKK] Aug 20 22:49:02 server postfix/smtpd[7724]: setting up TLS connection from

Re: real-world issues with smtpd_tls_ask_ccert?

2009-08-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:35:38PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: I looked up TLS_README, and it would not hurt to have a short sentence here and there to define terminology. Will the following do? Index: proto/TLS_README.html --- proto/TLS_README.html 28 Apr 2009 21:44:30 -