On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 08:16 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 13:55 +0100, Petr Spacek wrote:
> > Hello list,
> > 
> > during our last meeting with Simo we discussed support for name constraint 
> > extension in CA certificates and clients.
> > 
> > The Name Constraints Extensions is defined here:
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280#section-4.2.1.10
> > 
> > Following article could be interesting for you if you like longer stories:
> > "Mozilla changes policy to limit risk of subordinate CA certificate abuse"
> > Author: Lucian Constantin 19.02.2013 kl 21:50
> > http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=8C9E7CFA-0E65-24B0-1539C891C8F4C09B
> > 
> > If I remember correctly, questions were mainly about support on client side 
> > and about implications for older clients.
> 
> I had a chat with Kai Engert (in CC) at DevConf.cz about this, we'll try
> to work on this as time permits.
> NSS seem to support this extension but so far we do not have tests
> covering it apparently.
> 
> Simo.
> 

Btw I opened ticket https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3466 to
track this.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York

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