On 2025/12/04 16:38:04 Mark Thomas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Just a  quick update.
> 
> Generally, things are moving forward nicely. OCSP protocol is working 
> (at a basic level) for:
> - pure JSSE
> - Tomcat Native / OpenSSL with JSSE trust
> - Tomcat Native / OpenSSL with OpenSSL trust
> - FFM / OpenSSL with JSSE trust
> - FFM / OpenSSL with OpenSSL trust
> 
> I'm starting to look at aligning checks that JSSE and OpenSSL perform 
> and I am starting to reach the limits of what is possible with 
> pre-generated OCSP responses - particularly time based validation.
> 
> I think I am going to need to re-work the OCSP tests to use a "real" 
> OCSP responder. My plan is to use openssl (since it is required for 
> these tests anyway) and an expanded set of keys/certs we current use for 
> the other TLS tests.
> 
> We are starting to see dependencies on new Tomcat Native features so 
> some of the changes to 12.0.x will need to wait until the next Tomcat 
> Native release is available. I do plan to commit the changes I can as 
> soon as I am confident that they are stable.

A few remarks on OCSP I noticed mutual TLS auth a few years and never 
understood why Rainer did this. I had instantly to set: <OpenSSLConfCmd 
name="NO_OCSP_CHECK" value="true" /> because it is a custom hack in libtcnative 
to always enable OCSP checks and our OCSP responder was very often very slow. I 
had to read the source code and trace system calls to understand what is going 
on. It would be better to do this what mod_ssl does: 
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_ssl.html#sslocspenable

Michael

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