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Re: [certid] Need to define "most specific RDN"

Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> Fri, 16 July 2010 08:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [certid] Need to define "most specific RDN"
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Kaspar Brand wrote:
> On 16.07.2010 03:04, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
> > Can you name any browser or other important network client made in the
> > last 8 years (since RFC 3280 was published) that does SSL3 and/or TLS
> > but doesn't recognize DNS names in SANs?
> 
> "important" is a debatable term, but I'm pretty sure that as soon as you
> leave the browser camp, you'll encounter quite a few... I didn't have to
> search for a long time, actually: take wget as an example.

Well, I got the impression that clients using openssl are generally
in a bad shape. The complicated low level API, sparse docu and
insecure defaults create many pitfalls for the newcomer.
I hope that with the new RFC a common library that does the server
id checks could be developed though.

cu
Ludwig

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