Re: [Openvpn-devel] use extv3 extensions such as subjectAltName as common_name

2010-12-01 Thread Markus Kötter
Hi, Matthias Andree wrote: NAK on the patch: 1. unsafe use of strncpy (remember that strncpy does not NUL terminate if there's no room!), and You are right, I just noticed the existence of strcpynt for this purpose. 2. without reading ASN1_STRING_to_UTF8() docs, I do not believe that the

Re: [Openvpn-devel] use extv3 extensions such as subjectAltName as common_name

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 30.11.2010 16:50, schrieb Matthias Andree: > Make sure that the extraction reports failure (aka "return false;") and the > caller deals with that in case there are embedded NULs, IOW strlen() != > ia5.size. That ia5.size should be read as "ia5->length". Sorry for the confusion. -- Matthias

Re: [Openvpn-devel] use extv3 extensions such as subjectAltName as common_name

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 24.11.2010 16:00, schrieb Markus Koetter: > Hi, > > attached is a patch which allows using the extv3 extension of a > certificate as common name with email address. > Email addresses are more likely to be unique than the common name, and > the environment forced me to use the subjectAltName