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RE: "Unfortunate" Thawte discovery


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  • From: Scott Cantor <>
  • To: 'RL 'Bob' Morgan' <>
  • Cc: 'Shibboleth Design Team' <>
  • Subject: RE: "Unfortunate" Thawte discovery
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:44:07 -0400
  • Importance: Normal
  • Organization: The Ohio State University

> So Larry wrote one that ignores the key-usage errors (see
> keyserver.c in the pubcookie src, or I can forward).

I know where the source is, I can take a look.

> Obviously this would be a change to mod_ssl, hence
> unattractive. I don't see any mod_ssl knobs about this. And
> adding a hack to do something that's now explicitly
> prohibited by the RFC doesn't make for sleeping comfortably.

That's where I'm at. It's doubly not good.

CREN would be nice as an alternative, but I can't seem to get clear
what/if they're charging for the new direct server cert service.

-- Scott

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