On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 12:10:20AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote:
When I did my initial development with OpenSSL, I observed:
- If I did not have the rooted domain name in the SAN, then any SSL client stack would fail the verification if a rooted domain name was used to connect to the SSL server.
Well you have a broken SSL client app. If it is accepting non legal hostnames it should be normalising them before passing them to the ssl layer.
From what little research I've done (only OpenSSL), the SSL client is relying on getaddrinfo(3) to do name resolution. In turn, I haven't found an implementation of getaddrinfo(3) that rejects rooted domain names as non-legal.
Looking for couter-examples...
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-- Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> BSD admin/developer at large