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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-11-22 19:16:19 +0000
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2015-01-12 18:58:33 +0000
commit01a4a5c5cbaa40ca618d3e233991ce183b551477 (patch)
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parentad07e9add2a9959a2cc07c996452fcfc10ccab9f (diff)
Move certificate name checking to mainline, default enabled
This is an exim client checking a server certificate.
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@@ -1146,41 +1146,6 @@ Adding it to a redirect router makes no difference.
-Certificate name checking
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-The X509 certificates used for TLS are supposed be verified
-that they are owned by the expected host. The coding of TLS
-support to date has not made these checks.
-
-If built with EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES defined, code is
-included to do so for server certificates, and a new smtp transport option
-"tls_verify_cert_hostnames" supported which takes a hostlist
-which must match the target host for the additional checks must be made.
-The option currently defaults to empty, but this may change in
-the future. "*" is probably a suitable value.
-Whether certificate verification is done at all, and the result of
-it failing, is stll under the control of "tls_verify_hosts" nad
-"tls_try_verify_hosts".
-
-The name being checked is that for the host, generally
-the result of an MX lookup.
-
-Both Subject and Subject-Alternate-Name certificate fields
-are supported, as are wildcard certificates (limited to
-a single wildcard being the initial component of a 3-or-more
-component FQDN).
-
-The equivalent check on the server for client certificates is not
-implemented. At least one major email provider is using a client
-certificate which fails this check. They do not retry either without
-the client certificate or in clear.
-
-It is possible to duplicate the effect of this checking by
-creative use of Events.
-
-
-
-
DANE
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DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, as applied