[gnutls-devel] SSL certificate validation bugs in GnuTLS

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Thu Feb 13 20:20:56 CET 2014


On 02/13/2014 06:19 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> It looks like key usage violations used to be permitted only when
> %COMPAT was specified in the priority string, and then commit id
> 16d365ab359436651deb35a8ec6cdc0e76c077d9 that was changed to be
> tolerated by default.  Perhaps this behavior could be added back in a
> way that could be controlled by a more specific priority string (i'm not
> sure what the default would be).
> In addition to knowing what other TLS libraries do, a survey of sites
> that are willing to offer ECDHE or DHE key exchange mechanisms without a
> digital signature key usage flag would be helpful in making an argument
> about what the default should be.
> I could produce this patch if people think that's a good approach.

Maybe we can add back the check for 3.3.x when %COMPAT is not specified?

regards,
Nikos


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