Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, stellr(at)vt(dot)edu, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Trust intermediate CA for client certificates
Date: 2013-12-02 20:17:13
Message-ID: 20920.1386015433@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Yes. And the problem is that there is no way to prevent OpenSSL from
> accepting intermediate certificates supplied by the client. As a
> result, the server cannot accept client certificates signed by one
> intermediate CA without also accepting *any* client certificate that can
> present a chain back to the root CA.

Isn't that sort of the point?

regards, tom lane

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