[Freeipa-devel] Re: Certificate enrollment, principal names

[Andrew Wnuk]

On 11/05/09 11:34, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:28 -0800, Andrew Wnuk wrote:
>    
>> On 11/05/09 11:22, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:21 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> This is about right. What you're missing is storing the certificate
>>>> in
>>>> the service record. To do this we need to know what the target is.
>>>>
>>>> Nalin and I simply took two different approaches to sending this. We
>>>> can
>>>> easily support either method by making the principal an optional
>>>> attribute and looking for it in the CSR if not provided (assuming I
>>>> can
>>>> get my head around PKCS#10 enough to grab attributes).
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Given we should prevent "tricks" from people the server side should
>>> really parse the CSR and validate it against the ACL IMO.
>>> Otherwise do we have any other part that checks that host
>>> foo.example.com is asking a certificate for itself and not for
>>> bar.example.com ?
>>>
>>> Simo.
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> CSR is parsed and validated by CA.
>>      
> How does the CA know "Who" asked for a specific cert ?
>
> Simo.
>
>    
CA authenticates IPA and validates CSR, IPA authenticates and authorizes.

Andrew.