On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Mircea Carasel <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Douglas Hubler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mircea Carasel <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > With regard to XX-8779 the thing is that sipXconfig certificate
>> authority
>> > page for uploading certificates rejects non trusted certificates
>> > (certificates signed by a trusted authority)
>> > Therefore, self signed certificates does not pass validation and cannot
>> be
>> > uploaded
>>
>> Is the problem that we have also should be managing authorities too?
>>
> That's hard to say. One thing is that the root certificate that is
> generated at system setup is not signed by a trusted authority,
> and therefore it is not trusted. As an example, browsers detect the
> certificate exposed at https://<host>:8443/ and they report that it is not
> trusted, meaning that is not signed by a trusted authority
>
> I think that's fine, I don't think that sipxecs should deal with trusted
> authorities, and I think that is also fine that sipx to require a trusted
> certificate if someone wants to upload a new certificate.
> Hope this answers the question :)
>


I do know how the certs and CAs work, but my question more along the lines
of what we need to do to support users w/real certs or certs they've
generated elsewhere.




>
>> > So my question is that will it be desirable to remove that additional
>> > verification (openssl -verify)?
>>
>> We want to disallow certs uploads that will cause the system to not
>> work.  As far as I know, uploading a self-signed cert w/o also
>> installing the self-generated cert authority will break the system.
>> Right?
>>
> I agree, IMO we should keep certificate verification as is in sipXconfig.
> The most important thing is to define clear steps that should be followed by
> every user admin to generate certificate and upload through UI
>


right, 2 cases:
1.) certs/CAs admins have generated elsewhere
2.) certs and/or CAs from real authorities
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