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Re: [TLS] CertficateRequest extension encoding

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Mon, 10 October 2016 13:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] CertficateRequest extension encoding
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Geoffrey Keating wrote:
> 
> A typical macOS system will have many issued certs, typically with at
> most one that will work for any particular web site or web API.  So
> the filter is somewhat important for client certs to work there in any
> kind of user-friendly way.  In particular if the server provides no
> guidance, the UI will ask the user, presenting a dialog containing
> many certificates the user is not aware they have, leading to complete
> user confusion.

In the past, Safari on MAC entirely ignored the server-asserted contents of
certificate_authorities in the TLS CertificateRequest handshake message,
and would offer *all* possible client certs to the user.  Has this
bug been fixed in Safari?  I remember customer messages where clients
were refused that were erroneously sending AppleID client certs...


-Martin

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