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Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication

Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> Wed, 22 October 2014 16:34 UTC

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From: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:34:12 -0400
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Summary of discussion regarding spontaneuous authentication
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On 22 October 2014 11:18, Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> wrote:
]> Apple Safari seems to be notoriously broken when it comes to SSL client
> certificate selection, because it fails to process the certificate_authorities
> field from a CertificateRequest handshake message and remove obviously
> unacceptable certs from the list of credentials that the user is
> presented to select from.

Hah, I did not know that, but can confirm this is the case on an
up-to-date Safari+OSX10.9.

-tom

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