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Kevin,

On 2/23/2010 6:07 PM, Kevin Mills wrote:
> On 2/19/10, Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
>> So, with clientAuth="false", how do you get a client certificate to use
>> for authentication? Or, does the presence of the CLIENT-CERT in web.xml
>> trigger an SSL-renegotiation where the client cert /is/ requested from
>> the client.
> 
> The presence of CLIENT-CERT:
> 
>      <login-config>
>          <auth-method>CLIENT-CERT</auth-method>
>      </login-config>
> 
> in web.xml triggers the renegotiation and the client cert is requested
> from the client.  As Mark pointed out, this exposes the TLS bug
> CVE-2009-355 so be warned!

So, setting <auth-method> to CLIENT-CERT triggers an SSL renegotiation.
What if the <Connector> is set to clientAuth="want" or
clientAuth="true"? Will the initial SSL negotiation carry the client
certificate and therefore avoid CVE-2009-355?

Thanks,
- -chris
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