On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 9:22 PM Urmas Vanem <urmas.va...@octox.eu> wrote:

> Hi!
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> I try to find authoritative explanation for some aspects in RFC 5246 (TLS
> 1.2). I hope this is right place to ask.
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> Background: Company A has client/browser and company B has web server.
> Server has certificate and it also requires certificate from client. Client
> do not advertise signature_algorithm ECDSA/SHA512 in its client hello.
> Server supports signature_algorithm ECDSA/SHA512 by default, but it does
> not send it to client with certificate request message because it  is not
> advertised in client hello! (Communication fails.)
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>    - Company B says that this is correct implementation for RFC 5246 –
>    only common signature algorithms for both parties must be included in
>    signature_algorithms extension in certificate request message!
>    - Company A says that in correct implementation of RFC 5246 all
>    signature_algorithms supported by server must be included in certificate
>    request message (and client hello has nothing to do with certificate
>    request message)!
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> The signature algorithms in certificate request are unrelated from those
in the client hello, so the server should send its entire list.

-Ekr


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> Can you please share your opinion/understanding with me?
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> Or lead me to right direction?
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> Thanks!
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> Urmas
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