Re: [TLS] Request for mail testserver with TLS accepting renegotiation

["Yngve N. Pettersen" <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:05:22 +0200, Matt McCutchen  
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 01:55 +0200, Yngve N. Pettersen wrote:
>> I have recently upgraded my TLS Prober to test email servers (IMAP, POP,
>> SMTP).
>>
>> However, I am uncertain about whether the test for testing client
>> initiated renegotiation works properly, particularly since a test of
>> 300000+ servers failed to detect a single email server that accepted it
>> (or requested it).
>>
>> It might of course be that all email servers have this functionality
>> disabled, but for now I am assuming something is wrong about how the  
>> test
>> itself works.
>>
>> If anyone have an email server that is configured to accept client
>> initiated renegotiation that I could test, I would appreciate it.
>
> Is your test in any way specific to email protocols?  If you just run
> "openssl s_server" interactively, it seems to accept all
> client-initiated renegotiation by default (at least when renegotiation
> indication is used).

I already know it works against HTTPS servers (which gives some  
problematic statistics for unpatched servers), but the tests against email  
servers follow a different pattern, since the email servers send content  
before the client send data, so there could be a difference in behavior.  
Possibilities include having to get the start line from the server before  
trying renegotiation, rather than try immediately.

While I might try configuring a OpenSSL testserver, I would prefer to test  
against the "real thing".


-- 
Sincerely,
Yngve N. Pettersen

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