[TLS] draft-ietf-tls-oob-pubkey-09: client auth, but no client key
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de> Mon, 30 September 2013 14:51 UTC
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Subject: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-oob-pubkey-09: client auth, but no client key
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RFC 5246 7.4.6 "Client Certificate" says:
If no suitable certificate is available,
the client MUST send a certificate message containing no
certificates. That is, the certificate_list structure has a
length of zero.
How should a client act when raw public keys are used and the server
requests client authentication, but there is no public key or no
suitable public key?
Not adding client_certificate_type to the ClientHello is not enough,
because this could also indicate that the client supports client
authentication with X.509 certificates.
I would send an empty client certificate handshake message and no
certificate verify message and the server should decide, like it is
specified for X.509 certificates in RFC 5246 7.4.6.
Hauke
- [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-oob-pubkey-09: client auth, … Hauke Mehrtens
- Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-oob-pubkey-09: client au… Hannes Tschofenig