[libvirt-users] certificate pinning

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Mon Dec 10 10:53:12 UTC 2018


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Anastasiya Ruzhanskaya wrote:
> Ok, thank you. I will play around with it.
> 
> I also noticed, that libvirt does not use this SNI extension. Actually,this
> not needed here, as we have only one location for server certificate, but
> this requires some modifications in mitmproxy, as for example tls in web
> browsers always include this SNI extensions.

SNI is not relevant to libvirt as it does not use HTTP / virtual hosting.
It is a completely custom binary protocol

> Are there maybe other big differences in tls implementation in libvirt or
> maybe some assumptions that are taken during tls handhake process?

Libvirt just uses gnutls which is a standard impl.

Regards,
Daniel
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