News item 2009-11-25 - Koos van den Hout

2009-11-25 8 months ago
I like my SSL verification tools paranoid, and it seems openssl s_client -verify isn't paranoid enough. The man page reports:
BUGS

       The -verify option should really exit if the server verification
       fails.

I'd like added "the hostname in the certificate is not verified". I ran a little test server to test for the right way to configure the SSL certificates in openldap server and noticed I got the verification to work even when I was connecting to the wrong name.
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