On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 3:51 PM William Lallemand <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 09:43:22AM +0300, [email protected] wrote:
> > From: Shimi Gersner <[email protected]>
> >
> > haproxy supports generating SSL certificates based on SNI using a
> provided
> > CA signing certificate. Because CA certificates may be signed by multiple
> > CAs, in some scenarios, it is neccesary for the server to attach the
> trust chain
> > in addition to the generated certificate.
> >
> > The following patch adds the ability to optionally serve all public
> > certificates provided in the `ca-sign-file` PEM file.
> > Certificate loading was ported to use `ca_sign_use_chain` structure,
> > instead of directly reading public/private keys.
>
>
> Totally make sense in my opinion. But if I understand correctly you only
> need the certificate to be signed by the leaf CA in the chain and
> provides all the chain to the client. We probably don't need a new
> option for this.
>
> So what I suggest is to put the chain in the "ca-sign-file" so it will
> works the same way as the "crt" keyword.
>
> Yes, that is how it is currently implemented, chain is read from
"ca-sign-file".
I wasn't worried too much, but felt it's better not to introduce a
potential change
in behaviour and disabled this by default.

I'm going forward with enabling this by default and removing the flag - Is
that correct?


>
> > ---
> >  doc/configuration.txt        |  8 +++
> >  include/haproxy/listener-t.h |  4 +-
> >  src/cfgparse-ssl.c           | 13 +++++
> >  src/ssl_sock.c               | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  4 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/configuration.txt b/doc/configuration.txt
> > index 6d472134e..1d3878bc1 100644
> > --- a/doc/configuration.txt
> > +++ b/doc/configuration.txt
> > @@ -12158,6 +12158,14 @@ ca-sign-pass <passphrase>
> >    the dynamic generation of certificates is enabled. See
> >    'generate-certificates' for details.
> >
> > +ca-sign-use-chain
> > +  This setting is only available when support for OpenSSL was built in.
> It is
> > +  the CA private key passphrase. This setting is optional and used only
> when
>
> Copy-paste error there :-)
>
Ack!


>
> > +  the dynamic generation of certificates is enabled. See
> > +  'generate-certificates' for details.
> > +  Enabling this flag will attach all public certificates encoded in
> `ca-sign-file`
> > +  to the served certificate to the client, enabling trust.
> > +
>
> --
> William Lallemand
>

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