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Re: [Fwd: Re: Subversion + SSL + Client Certificate Authentication]

From: David Waite <mass_at_akuma.org>
Date: 2003-08-12 07:26:14 CEST

Unless something unfortunate happens, I'll be too busy until after the
22nd to work further with neon/ssl. I'd say just merge it (making sure
the SSL code still works for neon 0.23.x users, of course) :-)

-David Waite

kfogel@collab.net wrote:

>David Waite <mass@akuma.org> writes:
>
>
>>The quick description:
>>
>>Remove the "ssl-ignore-host-mismatch" boolean from the servers config,
>>replace it with a "ssl-override-cert-hostname" string which specified
>>which hostname is being overridden. It is more specific, and prevents
>>me from coming along with any valid cert and doing a man-in-the-middle
>>attack.
>>
>>
>
>I think to truly understand this, I'll need to ponder more deeply on
>certs and man-in-the-middle attacks (maybe Ben can enlighten me
>tomorrow). But +1 on tossing whatever changes you feel are
>appropriate into the branch.
>
>Since we're about to merge the branch into trunk (for later
>rebranching), let us know whether your change should go into this
>first merge, or wait till later merge. (No need to wait on committing
>it to the branch either way, of course.)
>
>-K
>
>

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