Re: StartCom CA inclusion request

2006-05-02 Thread David E. Ross
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:17:58 -0700 David E. Ross wrote: Note that my checklist for CA audit (originally developed for reviewing CACert, another free certificate authority) specifies Is it published somewhere? I couldn't find it by searching the Web. It migh

Re: StartCom CA inclusion request

2006-05-02 Thread christian . barmala
Hi David, On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:17:58 -0700 David E. Ross wrote: > Note that my checklist for CA audit (originally developed for reviewing > CACert, another free certificate authority) specifies Is it published somewhere? I couldn't find it by searching the Web. It might be very interesting. C

Re: StartCom CA inclusion request

2006-05-02 Thread christian . barmala
Hi, On Mon, 01 May 2006 16:17:58 -0700 David E. Ross wrote: > ... I would not trust any Class 1 subscriber certificate ... On Mon, 01 May 2006 20:24:40 -0400 Frank Hecker wrote: > ...Whether one agrees that it's sufficient or not, "class 1" certificates ... As you'll recall,... the ultimate resul

Re: Client Authentication Problem (and solution!)

2006-05-02 Thread Arshad Noor
PKIX standards (RFC 3280) state the following about Serial Numbers: 4.1.2.2 Serial number The serial number MUST be a positive integer assigned by the CA to each certificate. It MUST be unique for each certificate issued by a given CA (i.e., the issuer name and serial number identify

Re: Client Authentication Problem (and solution!)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Pratt
It was an oversight. Our SAs created a script to automatically generate certs for all users, and when it came to assigning a value to serial number they couldn't find any documentation or guidance on how to properly assign this value. Plus the fact that our combined experience with LDAP and SSL

Re: Client Authentication Problem (and solution!)

2006-05-02 Thread Arshad Noor
While the traditional definition of a digital certificate is taken to be the "binding of a name to a public key", why would you issue certs with duplicate serial numbers? Was this an oversight or a design decision? If the latter, it would help the forum to understand the business/technical requi

Re: Client Authentication Problem (and solution!)

2006-05-02 Thread Kyle Hamilton
On 5/2/06, Michael Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem was with the directory server (5.2 patch 4, Solaris 8) and how it handles client certificates (or possibly in how we created the certificates). Apparently if the same DS machine receives two certifcates at the same time with the sa

Client Authentication Problem (and solution!)

2006-05-02 Thread Michael Pratt
I'm cross posting this to crypto and ldap in the hopes nobody else will waste months of effort on a simple issue :) Those of you that frequent these boards have probably seen several posts from me dating back to January regarding problems with client authentication and Sun directory server. We'v