[SCM] GNU gnutls branch, gnutls_2_10_x, updated. gnutls_2_10_0-9-g301635a
Andreas Metzler
ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Nov 20 15:53:16 CET 2010
On 2010-07-13 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at gnutls.org> wrote:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> "Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos" <nmav at gnutls.org> writes:
>>> + gnutls_certificate_set_verify_flags(xcred, GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT);
>> What was the reason for this change? Do we want to do this
>> unconditionally? Maybe we could introduce a --permit-v1-cas flag? I'd
>> rather prefer to treat V1 CAs as broken-by-default...
> There is no practical problem with having V1 root CAs, the problem is
> with the intermediate (untrusted) and this flag allows only root CAs. If
> disabled it fails to verify a large fraction of any root CA list. A flag
> that would disallow them would offer the functionality you say, but I
> don't think it should be the default (not today with this large set of
> V1 CAs at least).
[...]
Hello,
I have stumbled upon gnutls-cli's changed behavior today and could not
find anything in NEWS or Changelog about a policy change. If this
stays in, please document it. (simple patch attached, perhaps the manpage
should say so, too.)
Also I think different default values in gnutls-the-library and
gnutls-cli are confusing. ("My gnutls using app has problem x" -
"Please try to reproduce with gnutls-cli" - "Cannot.") Either
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT is a more sensible default value
(AFAIK OpenSSL is using it, and about 50% of all TLS certificates are
signed by V1 CAs, e.g. Go Daddy.) or not. If
GNUTLS_VERIFY_ALLOW_X509_V1_CA_CRT is truely evil gnutls-cli should
not use it by default.
cu andreas
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