Re: SPICE on libvirt/qemu with TLS

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Hey,

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Joerg wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i'm experiementing with spice/libvirt.
> 
> I like to achieve a secure (encrypted) connection to an qemu VM
> started by libvirt with client authentication based on certificates.
> 
> I'm as far as having a running spice server on an tlsport.
> 
> But from the documentation i could find, i suppose this connection is
> only validated in terms of server authenticity.
> 
> The server does not validate the client certificate.
> Is that true?

Yes, as far as I know, the spice-server is not able to authenticate
clients connecting to it.
> 
> Could you shed some light on how secure spice connection
> are supposed to work. Not having the client authenticated seems not
> correct in this scenario.

I agree that this is something which would be nice to have, though I
think this is the first time someone mentions this. Could you file a bug
for that?

Thanks,

Christophe

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