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Re: [TLS] RFC-4366-bis and the unrecognized_name(112) alert

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> Mon, 07 June 2010 17:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC-4366-bis and the unrecognized_name(112) alert
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Marsh Ray wrote:

>> and that warning should not affect the
>> outcome of that process at all.
> 
> For example, an SNI-aware client app may request webservice.example.com,
> but a DNS mixup sends him to the SNI-aware server serving
> www.example.com with a wildcard certificate valid for *.example.com.
> 
> In this case I think a failed handshake would be the best outcome.

But a warning alert cannot serve this purpose. A fatal alert is the
appropriate in that case.

regards,
Nikos

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