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Re: [TLS] Certificate handshake message - common config problems

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Fri, 29 January 2010 17:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Certificate handshake message - common config problems
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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

> What do other implementers think about this issue?

GnuTLS requires a correctly ordered certificate chain and will not
attempt to reorder it.

People have reported this as a problem from time to time, but it is
always a server problem that can/should be fixed, so right now I don't
see us spend any time to improving this on the validator side.  As you
noticed, some browser appears to accept this situation, hence people
might not notice the misconfiguration directly.

/Simon

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