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authorJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-05-23 15:50:07 +0100
committerJeremy Harris <jgh146exb@wizmail.org>2014-05-23 15:50:07 +0100
commitf2de3a3339ee08778dffb98057f1c19bdcf86374 (patch)
tree6677b9247fbe0ce879be7022eb87f8e8024b71ff /doc
parent7437665e6205079041af7f56bcc3bee0a20c6d5c (diff)
Move OCSP out of EXPERIMENTAL
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt103
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog2
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/NewStuff9
-rw-r--r--doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt91
4 files changed, 112 insertions, 93 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 46c83adf9..990df6241 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -13222,6 +13222,7 @@ listed in more than one group.
.row &%tls_crl%& "certificate revocation list"
.row &%tls_dh_max_bits%& "clamp D-H bit count suggestion"
.row &%tls_dhparam%& "DH parameters for server"
+.row &%tls_ocsp_file%& "location of server certificate status proof"
.row &%tls_on_connect_ports%& "specify SSMTP (SMTPS) ports"
.row &%tls_privatekey%& "location of server private key"
.row &%tls_remember_esmtp%& "don't reset after starting TLS"
@@ -16341,6 +16342,13 @@ prior to the 4.80 release, as Debian used to patch Exim to raise the minimum
acceptable bound from 1024 to 2048.
+.option tls_ocsp_file main string&!! unset
+This option
+must if set expand to the absolute path to a file which contains a current
+status proof for the server's certificate, as obtained from the
+Certificate Authority.
+
+
.option tls_on_connect_ports main "string list" unset
This option specifies a list of incoming SSMTP (aka SMTPS) ports that should
operate the obsolete SSMTP (SMTPS) protocol, where a TLS session is immediately
@@ -23005,6 +23013,18 @@ hard failure if required. See also &%hosts_try_auth%&, and chapter
&<<CHAPSMTPAUTH>>& for details of authentication.
+.option hosts_request_ocsp smtp "host list&!!" *
+.cindex "TLS" "requiring for certain servers"
+Exim will request a Certificate Status on a
+TLS session for any host that matches this list.
+&%tls_verify_certificates%& should also be set for the transport.
+
+.option hosts_require_ocsp smtp "host list&!!" unset
+.cindex "TLS" "requiring for certain servers"
+Exim will request, and check for a valid Certificate Status being given, on a
+TLS session for any host that matches this list.
+&%tls_verify_certificates%& should also be set for the transport.
+
.option hosts_require_tls smtp "host list&!!" unset
.cindex "TLS" "requiring for certain servers"
Exim will insist on using a TLS session when delivering to any host that
@@ -26164,12 +26184,79 @@ certificate is supplied, &$tls_in_peerdn$& is empty.
.cindex "TLS" "revoked certificates"
.cindex "revocation list"
.cindex "certificate" "revocation list"
+.cindex "OCSP" "stapling"
Certificate issuing authorities issue Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) when
certificates are revoked. If you have such a list, you can pass it to an Exim
server using the global option called &%tls_crl%& and to an Exim client using
an identically named option for the &(smtp)& transport. In each case, the value
of the option is expanded and must then be the name of a file that contains a
CRL in PEM format.
+The downside is that clients have to periodically re-download a potentially huge
+file from every certificate authority the know of.
+
+The way with most moving parts at query time is Online Certificate
+Status Protocol (OCSP), where the client verifies the certificate
+against an OCSP server run by the CA. This lets the CA track all
+usage of the certs. It requires running software with access to the
+private key of the CA, to sign the responses to the OCSP queries. OCSP
+is based on HTTP and can be proxied accordingly.
+
+The only widespread OCSP server implementation (known to this writer)
+comes as part of OpenSSL and aborts on an invalid request, such as
+connecting to the port and then disconnecting. This requires
+re-entering the passphrase each time some random client does this.
+
+The third way is OCSP Stapling; in this, the server using a certificate
+issued by the CA periodically requests an OCSP proof of validity from
+the OCSP server, then serves it up inline as part of the TLS
+negotiation. This approach adds no extra round trips, does not let the
+CA track users, scales well with number of certs issued by the CA and is
+resilient to temporary OCSP server failures, as long as the server
+starts retrying to fetch an OCSP proof some time before its current
+proof expires. The downside is that it requires server support.
+
+Unless Exim is built with the support disabled,
+or with GnuTLS earlier than version 3.1.3,
+support for OCSP stapling is included.
+
+There is a global option called &%tls_ocsp_file%&.
+The file specified therein is expected to be in DER format, and contain
+an OCSP proof. Exim will serve it as part of the TLS handshake. This
+option will be re-expanded for SNI, if the &%tls_certificate%& option
+contains &`tls_in_sni`&, as per other TLS options.
+
+Exim does not at this time implement any support for fetching a new OCSP
+proof. The burden is on the administrator to handle this, outside of
+Exim. The file specified should be replaced atomically, so that the
+contents are always valid. Exim will expand the &%tls_ocsp_file%& option
+on each connection, so a new file will be handled transparently on the
+next connection.
+
+When built with OpenSSL Exim will check for a valid next update timestamp
+in the OCSP proof; if not present, or if the proof has expired, it will be
+ignored.
+
+For the client to be able to verify the stapled OCSP the server must
+also supply, in its stapled information, any intermediate
+certificates for the chain leading to the OCSP proof from the signer
+of the server certificate. There may be zero or one such. These
+intermediate certificates should be added to the server OCSP stapling
+file named by &%tls_ocsp_file%&.
+
+Note that the proof only covers the terminal server certificate,
+not any of the chain from CA to it.
+
+.code
+ A helper script "ocsp_fetch.pl" for fetching a proof from a CA
+ OCSP server is supplied. The server URL may be included in the
+ server certificate, if the CA is helpful.
+
+ One failure mode seen was the OCSP Signer cert expiring before the end
+ of validity of the OCSP proof. The checking done by Exim/OpenSSL
+ noted this as invalid overall, but the re-fetch script did not.
+.endd
+
+
.section "Configuring an Exim client to use TLS" "SECID185"
@@ -26225,6 +26312,19 @@ The &%tls_verify_hosts%& and &%tls_try_verify_hosts%& options restrict
certificate verification to the listed servers. Verification either must
or need not succeed respectively.
+The &(smtp)& transport has two OCSP-related options:
+&%hosts_require_ocsp%&; a host-list for which a Certificate Status
+is requested and required for the connection to proceed. The default
+value is empty.
+&%hosts_request_ocsp%&; a host-list for which (additionally)
+a Certificate Status is requested (but not necessarily verified). The default
+value is "*" meaning that requests are made unless configured
+otherwise.
+
+The host(s) should also be in &%hosts_require_tls%&, and
+&%tls_verify_certificates%& configured for the transport,
+for OCSP to be relevant.
+
If
&%tls_require_ciphers%& is set on the &(smtp)& transport, it must contain a
list of permitted cipher suites. If either of these checks fails, delivery to
@@ -26310,6 +26410,9 @@ during TLS session handshake, to permit alternative values to be chosen:
.next
.vindex "&%tls_verify_certificates%&"
&%tls_verify_certificates%&
+.next
+.vindex "&%tls_ocsp_file%&"
+&%tls_verify_certificates%&
.endlist
Great care should be taken to deal with matters of case, various injection
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 22be3438e..ee56623ad 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@ JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
Christian Aistleitner.
+JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
+
Exim version 4.82
-----------------
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
index ac06ebfc6..f3e2dc1eb 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff
@@ -39,8 +39,7 @@ Version 4.83
7. New command-line option -C for exiqgrep to specify alternate exim.conf
file when searching the queue.
- 8. EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3
- or later of that.
+ 8. OCSP now supports GnuTLS also, if you have version 3.1.3 or later of that.
9. Support for DNSSEC on outbound connections.
@@ -51,6 +50,12 @@ Version 4.83
11. PRDR is now supported dy default.
+12. OCSP stapling is now supported by default.
+
+13. If built with the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature enabled, Exim will output
+ Delivery Status Notification messages in MIME format, and negociate
+ DSN features per RFC 3461.
+
Version 4.82
------------
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
index 7872f24e2..6657f63c7 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt
@@ -6,97 +6,6 @@ about experimental features, all of which are unstable and
liable to incompatible change.
-OCSP Stapling support
---------------------------------------------------------------
-
-X.509 PKI certificates expire and can be revoked; to handle this, the
-clients need some way to determine if a particular certificate, from a
-particular Certificate Authority (CA), is still valid. There are three
-main ways to do so.
-
-The simplest way is to serve up a Certificate Revocation List (CRL) with
-an ordinary web-server, regenerating the CRL before it expires. The
-downside is that clients have to periodically re-download a potentially
-huge file from every certificate authority it knows of.
-
-The way with most moving parts at query time is Online Certificate
-Status Protocol (OCSP), where the client verifies the certificate
-against an OCSP server run by the CA. This lets the CA track all
-usage of the certs. This requires running software with access to the
-private key of the CA, to sign the responses to the OCSP queries. OCSP
-is based on HTTP and can be proxied accordingly.
-
-The only widespread OCSP server implementation (known to this writer)
-comes as part of OpenSSL and aborts on an invalid request, such as
-connecting to the port and then disconnecting. This requires
-re-entering the passphrase each time some random client does this.
-
-The third way is OCSP Stapling; in this, the server using a certificate
-issued by the CA periodically requests an OCSP proof of validity from
-the OCSP server, then serves it up inline as part of the TLS
-negotiation. This approach adds no extra round trips, does not let the
-CA track users, scales well with number of certs issued by the CA and is
-resilient to temporary OCSP server failures, as long as the server
-starts retrying to fetch an OCSP proof some time before its current
-proof expires. The downside is that it requires server support.
-
-If Exim is built with EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP and it was built with OpenSSL,
-or with GnuTLS 3.1.3 or later, then it gains a new global option:
-"tls_ocsp_file".
-
-The file specified therein is expected to be in DER format, and contain
-an OCSP proof. Exim will serve it as part of the TLS handshake. This
-option will be re-expanded for SNI, if the tls_certificate option
-contains $tls_sni, as per other TLS options.
-
-Exim does not at this time implement any support for fetching a new OCSP
-proof. The burden is on the administrator to handle this, outside of
-Exim. The file specified should be replaced atomically, so that the
-contents are always valid. Exim will expand the "tls_ocsp_file" option
-on each connection, so a new file will be handled transparently on the
-next connection.
-
-Under OpenSSL Exim will check for a valid next update timestamp in the
-OCSP proof; if not present, or if the proof has expired, it will be
-ignored.
-
-Also, given EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP, the smtp transport gains two options:
-- "hosts_require_ocsp"; a host-list for which an OCSP Stapling
-is requested and required for the connection to proceed. The default
-value is empty.
-- "hosts_request_ocsp"; a host-list for which (additionally) an OCSP
-Stapling is requested (but not necessarily verified). The default
-value is "*" meaning that requests are made unless configured
-otherwise.
-
-The host(s) should also be in "hosts_require_tls", and
-"tls_verify_certificates" configured for the transport.
-
-For the client to be able to verify the stapled OCSP the server must
-also supply, in its stapled information, any intermediate
-certificates for the chain leading to the OCSP proof from the signer
-of the server certificate. There may be zero or one such. These
-intermediate certificates should be added to the server OCSP stapling
-file (named by tls_ocsp_file).
-
-Note that the proof only covers the terminal server certificate,
-not any of the chain from CA to it.
-
-At this point in time, we're gathering feedback on use, to determine if
-it's worth adding complexity to the Exim daemon to periodically re-fetch
-OCSP files and somehow handling multiple files.
-
- A helper script "ocsp_fetch.pl" for fetching a proof from a CA
- OCSP server is supplied. The server URL may be included in the
- server certificate, if the CA is helpful.
-
- One failure mode seen was the OCSP Signer cert expiring before the end
- of validity of the OCSP proof. The checking done by Exim/OpenSSL
- noted this as invalid overall, but the re-fetch script did not.
-
-
-
-
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