Re: certificates

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--- Howard Chu <hyc at symas.com> wrote:

> Stop for a moment and think that through. If you don't configure the 
> client with a set of CAs to trust, then the only way to make the TLS 
> handshake work is to tell the client not to attempt to verify the 
> server's cert at all. That means any server can present any ol' made up 
> certificate, claiming to be any entity, and the client will just blindly 
> trust it.


oops, you're right, I didn't think that through.  Of course.

it just seems that managing CA certs on the clients would be a real pain.

Besides, is there any way within this whole FDS framework to revoke Certs?  If the ldap server is
compromised, how do I tell the clients not to trust it (or the CA or both) anymore???

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