Hi Achim,

it can happen that everything is correct with the situation:

1. The log entry is written after the crypto toolkit returns the new
certificate to the command.

2. After the log entry the certificate is converted and stored in the
context of the workflow.

The situation is perhaps confusing because if the command crashes
between the log message and the end of the command then you don't see
the certificate in the context of the workflow.

The problem is that the certificate was issued. You don't have it but it
exists. This fact is important for a potential security review. Perhaps
we should write more than one message here.

- certificate signed but not persisted
- certificate converted
- certificate persisted

I don't know if this is too much noise.

Best regards

Michael


Am 30.07.2012 17:53, schrieb Joachim Astel:
> Hello OpenXPKI developers,
> 
> recently we have had a heavy-load situation within OpenXPKI.
> It happened that the parent gave control to the child, got
> into "Issuance" workflow state and logged into OpenXPKI log
> a "CertIssuance" line with a certificate which wasn't signed
> at this time -- due to the load situation, the child process
> had died then (parent at this point was in status "WAITING_FOR_CHILD").
> The certificate wasn't signed, but the above log output has happened.
>>From an audit perspective is not nice, if a certificate issuance
> is reported although it hasn't been signed in reality.
> This means that the log should ideally only be written if the
> certificate was really issued, not in this case.
> 
> Greetings
>       -Achim
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