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Andrew Stitcher commented on PROTON-2021:
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Another change that changes an error case into a sensible default case is to
allow pn_ssl_init() to take a NULL domain to indicate a domain set up with a
defualt.
In the case a client domain this default sets up peer name verification with
the system default certificates. In the case of a server domain it currently
sets up whatever is the default server domain - this will tend to not be very
useful except for testing purposes as it won't set up any identifying
certificates.
> [c] Make SSL/TLS usage more secure by default
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> Key: PROTON-2021
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-2021
> Project: Qpid Proton
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: proton-c
> Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
> Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
> Priority: Major
>
> There are some aspects of using TLS with proton-c that are awkward and by
> default less secure than they could be.
> A good example of this is that it is tricky to set up to verify peer names
> against the system default ca certificate list. Even though this is carefully
> set up under many (most?) modern OS distributions.
> Another example is that for a client on the internet verifying peer names is
> the only safe way to use TLS, but this is not the default.
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