Re: [users@httpd] What verification does Apache do as part of SSLVerifyClient?

2012-09-09 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Mark Montague m...@catseye.org wrote: ... As you can see, the CN is not a hostname and does not get validated by httpd. You need to rely on the certificate authorities you trust in order to not sign certificates for improper CNs -- for example, the CN of a host

Re: [users@httpd] What verification does Apache do as part of SSLVerifyClient?

2012-09-09 Thread Pete Houston
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: So the client cert. does contain the private key? Then its password is all that is protecting it? No, the key is normally (but not always) kept separately. Mark, in your experience, what is the best way to distribute client

Re: [users@httpd] What verification does Apache do as part of SSLVerifyClient?

2012-09-09 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Pete Houston p...@openstrike.co.uk wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 08:36:30AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: So the client cert. does contain the private key? Then its password is all that is protecting it? No, the key is normally (but not always) kept separately.

[users@httpd] What verification does Apache do as part of SSLVerifyClient?

2012-09-05 Thread John.E.Gregg
All, I'm starting to use SSLVerifyClient. I can't find any documentation on exactly what it means to verify a client, however. By reading the source, I found that some of the work is delegated to OpenSSL and its behavior is somewhat documented here:

Re: [users@httpd] What verification does Apache do as part of SSLVerifyClient?

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Montague
On September 5, 2012 16:32 , john.e.gr...@wellsfargo.com wrote: I’m starting to use SSLVerifyClient. I can’t find any documentation on exactly what it means to verify a client, however. By reading the source, I found that some of the work is delegated to OpenSSL and its behavior is somewhat