Re: Extracting SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_UID does not work

Joe Orton wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:23:34PM +0200, Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Ok, then the OID in my cert is 0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1 (attribute type 
>> 'uid' specified for pilotPerson). That seems right to me since it's 
>> compliant with RFC 4514 which contains a table of short and long attribute 
>> type names and their OIDs (end of chapter 3).
>>
>> But now I don't understand the #ifdef-statement mentioned above. From my 
>> understanding it MUST NOT reference NID_x500UniqueIdentifier. It MUST 
>> reference NID_userId. To me that looks clearly like a bug in mod_ssl.
> 
> Changing it would break backwards-compat which is why the #ifdef is 
> there (so that the _UID variable refers to the same OID regardless of 
> what OpenSSL version si use).

1. I seriously doubt that there are any certs out there which use 
x500UniqueIdentifier in the subject-DN. If yes, then these certs are 
also seriously broken.

2. It's simply broken that attribute type UID in mod_ssl differs from 
OpenSSL here.

Ciao, Michael.
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