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Commit 2d93a6a7 authored by Apollon Oikonomopoulos's avatar Apollon Oikonomopoulos Committed by Guido Trotter
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Set list of trusted SSL CAs for client to verify

As per SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(3SSL), set the list of acceptable CAs
advertised to SSL clients to include the server's own certificate. This
evidently fixes the pycurl/gnutls RPC client.

During the TLS Handshake, when client verification is requested, the
Server sends a CertificateRequest message which states that the client
should send a valid certificate as a response. The CertificateRequest
message contains a section called "certificate_authorities", which,
according to the standard, is a list of the Distinguished Names (DNs) of
acceptable certification authorities. The client uses this list to send
a certificate signed by one of the acceptable CAs.

Under OpenSSL's server implementation, this list must be set manually
using some appropriate call, otherwise the list is empty. TLS 1.0[1]
does not state whether the list may be left blank, whereas TLS 1.1[2]
and 1.2[3] state that in case the list is blank, then the client *may*
send any certificate of a valid type (valid types are specified
elsewhere in the handshake).

OpenSSL clients seem to obey the behaviour specified in TLS 1.1+,
whereas at least curl+GnuTLS does not send any certificates if the list
is empty (which is not wrong per the spec, but also evidently not
configurable).

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2246
[2] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4346
[3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246



Signed-off-by: default avatarApollon Oikonomopoulos <apollon@noc.grnet.gr>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGuido Trotter <ultrotter@google.com>
parent dbc4dda7
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