I understand the nature of ossec-authd is to provision pub/priv key pairs 
as signed by an authority.  The question is more around the nature of the 
cert used in signing.

On Friday, May 30, 2014 11:49:41 AM UTC-7, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:13 PM, rgamurphy <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> >   I'm at the beginning of designing an OSSEC infrastructure for my 
> > organization and from what I've been unable to find on my own I must 
> have a 
> > bit of an unusual requirement for our setup.  We have an internal CA 
> with a 
> > hierarchal setup (a top level signing authority with a few layers of 
> > subordinates as a way to thwart cross environment data contamination). 
>  This 
> > mostly works well for us and I can usually find supporting documentation 
> > regarding how different subsystems work with/as subordinate CAs.  The 
> idea 
> > is to have ossec-authd take care of federating new agents as a 
> subordinate 
> > certificate authority.  Ideally, the cert would also be used to verify 
> the 
> > clients at the initial key assignment as well (but that seems to be a 
> > feature still in pull request 
> > https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/166). 
> > 
> >   I'm actually a bit surprised that I can't find this in OSSEC 
> documentation 
> > but I assume it would be supported since the cryptography backend is 
> > OpenSSL.  Has anyone tried and/or have some guidance around this? 
> > 
>
> I probably don't have any clue what you're actually asking, but 
> OSSEC's authd cannot give out anything beyond an OSSEC key. 
>
> > Thanks! 
> > 
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