Minimum requirements for client certificates

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Wed Sep 2 09:15:27 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great Baschdel once stated:
> Sorry, that could have been me, dragonstone still generates certificates 
> without a subject (And it won't be updated since I'm currently working 
> on it successor).

  There is no need to apologize, things happen, and in this case, my program
did the wrong thing due to a misunderstanding I had about client
certificates.  I'm just glad the bug was found.

> Also there should be s little information as possible stored in the 
> client certificates since they get transmitted in the clear to avoid 
> giving away extra data to someone who is "just" eavesdropping without 
> messing with the connection itself (and therefore having a pretty good 
> chance of staying undetected).
> 
> Have a nice day!

  You too.

> -  Baschdel
> 
> P.s. Apologies to Sean for sending a duplicated mail, I apparently still 
> manage to hit the wrong reply button in thunderbird

  No harm with that either.  

  -spc



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