[Freeipa-devel] Re: Certificate enrollment, principal names

Andrew Wnuk awnuk at redhat.com
Thu Nov 5 19:28:11 UTC 2009


On 11/05/09 11:22, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:21 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>    
>> This is about right. What you're missing is storing the certificate
>> in
>> the service record. To do this we need to know what the target is.
>>
>> Nalin and I simply took two different approaches to sending this. We
>> can
>> easily support either method by making the principal an optional
>> attribute and looking for it in the CSR if not provided (assuming I
>> can
>> get my head around PKCS#10 enough to grab attributes).
>>      
> Given we should prevent "tricks" from people the server side should
> really parse the CSR and validate it against the ACL IMO.
> Otherwise do we have any other part that checks that host
> foo.example.com is asking a certificate for itself and not for
> bar.example.com ?
>
> Simo.
>
>    
CSR is parsed and validated by CA.
Andrew




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