Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Support fingerprint authentication

2018-05-24 Thread Simon Rozman
Hi, > > Private and public key are still used. The patch stil uses > > certificates and TLS, it only replaces the check certificate of the > > peer's certificate against the CA with a hash check (certificate > > pinning if you want). > > > > So basically instead of saying that you trust all certif

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [openvpn-devel] Use --ec-curve

2018-05-24 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 24/05/18 14:46, tincanteksup wrote: > As --ec-curve remains undocumented I presume that is because its > implementation is not yet completed ? So I decided to send this email for > confirmation or, if this problem is not known, to inform you of i

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Support fingerprint authentication

2018-05-24 Thread David Sommerseth
On 24/05/18 12:17, Arne Schwabe wrote: > >>> When you sign a certificate you are actually singing the hash of the >>> certificate. So you essentially are saying: "This certificate with the >>> hash xxxyyy is trusted by my CA". Traditionally we used the MD5 of the >>> certificate, then SHA1 and now

[Openvpn-devel] [openvpn-devel] Use --ec-curve

2018-05-24 Thread tincanteksup
I have come across the use of --ec-curve on the Forum a couple of times but, as it is undocumented and does not appear to work, I did not pay that much attention .. Now, it turns out that --ec-curve is supported by current release v246, so I decided to look more closely at the problem. The short

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Support fingerprint authentication

2018-05-24 Thread Arne Schwabe
>> When you sign a certificate you are actually singing the hash of the >> certificate. So you essentially are saying: "This certificate with the >> hash xxxyyy is trusted by my CA". Traditionally we used the MD5 of the >> certificate, then SHA1 and now SHA256 which we signed. (See the weak md5 >>