At 12:53 AM +0300 5/11/09, Yoav Nir wrote:
>Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>
>> At 2:08 PM +0300 5/10/09, Yoav Nir wrote:
>> >Hi all
>> >
>> >I've submitted issue #107 about certificate encoding.
>> >
>> >IMO it's not clear how certificate chains are to be encoded in IKEv2.
>> >
>> >http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/ipsecme/trac/ticket/107
>>
>> That would be the CertBundle, also described in section 3.6.
>>
>> --Paul Hoffman, Director
>> --VPN Consortium
>
>And there's the problem. There is no certificate payload encoding for a 
>certificate bundle. Only hash-and-URL
>
>So what do I do if the peer sent a certificate request for the root CA, and I 
>have a certificate by a sub-CA, and we don't use hash-and-URL?  I can't use a 
>bundle in a Type #4 encoding, but I do need to send the subordinate CA 
>certificate as well.

You can:

a) start using hash-and-url

b) hope your peer has the sub-CA

c) write an extension to 4306 that allows bundles in CERT

Doing (a) is the most interoperable, but you're probably save with (b) in a 
typical closed network.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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