[ipxe-devel] Proposed patch: support for SSL subjectAlternativeName certificates, two other useful features

Jarrod Johnson jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 14:57:10 UTC 2014


FWIW, I took a tentative swing at at least IPv4 iPAddress subjectAltName
support on top of the patches you did:
https://git.ipxe.org/vendor/xcat/ipxe.git/commitdiff/e4a9069fe792f702d24bf725586fb209f8faf541


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya at google.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Are there any other comments or concerns with this patchset? I'd love to
> see it merged.
>
> Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Kevin Landreth <
> crackerjackmack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is working great for me using a StartCom Class 2 wildcard
>> certificate with alternate names.  I only applied patches 1 and 4 though.
>>  Seems like patches 2 and 3 are unrelated to the SSL parts ?  I did not
>> test with a non-wildcard, non-alternate name cert.
>>
>> Tested on master with this build
>> CA: https://www.startssl.com/certs/ca.pem &
>> https://www.startssl.com/certs/sub.class2.client.ca.pem
>> make -s EMBED=~/work/media.ipxe
>> TRUST=~/work/trust/ca.pem,~/work/trust/sub.class2.server.ca.pem
>>
>> media.ipxe:
>> #!ipxe
>> dhcp
>> chain https://cdn.ubooty.org/bootstrap.ipxe
>>
>> At any rate, thank you for this.
>>
>> - Kevin Landreth
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya at google.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Whoops, mail client ate the attachment. Should be attached (really!)
>>> this time.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> -Alex
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya at google.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I found the bug that was preventing certificate validation for certs
>>>> without sAN from working. I've corrected the patchset (attached). (The bug
>>>> was that the extensions was incorrectly always being flagged as enabled
>>>> even if the parse failed).
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you find any further issues.
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> -Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <
>>>> achernya at google.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can you reproduce against a public cert so that I can test with it?
>>>>> That code path should be getting called unless the extensions is being
>>>>> detected, and this seems to imply the cert claims its presence but does not
>>>>> have any values.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Jarrod Johnson <
>>>>> jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So I found a bug, it's probably easy to fix but I've about burned out
>>>>>> my brain making TLS work in EFI mode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> assert(((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))->prev != NULL)
>>>>>> failed at net/tls.c line 2449
>>>>>> assert(((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))->next != NULL)
>>>>>> failed at net/tls.c line 2449
>>>>>> assert(((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))->next->prev ==
>>>>>> ((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))) failed at net/tls.c line 2449
>>>>>> assert(((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))->prev->next ==
>>>>>> ((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names))) failed at net/tls.c line 2449
>>>>>> assert((((&cert->extensions.subject_alt_name.names)->next)) != NULL)
>>>>>> failed at net/tls.c line 2449
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My cert has no alt names.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <
>>>>>> achernya at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm still interested in getting these patches merged, so I'd
>>>>>>> appreciate review comments.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <
>>>>>>> achernya at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just finished testing the OCSP patch, it applies on top of the
>>>>>>>> previous 3, hence the 4/4 in the subject.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Alex Chernyakhovsky <
>>>>>>>> achernya at google.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  Hi Ken,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You're correct, looks like I typo'd something while preparing the
>>>>>>>>> patches. Here's an updated copy of the patchset. I've also found an issue
>>>>>>>>> in the OCSP code while doing this testing, a patch likely forthcoming.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>>> -Alex
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Ken Simon <ninkendo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Alex,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I think there's a typo in your implementation of
>>>>>>>>>> dns_wildcard_matcher:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> + const char* first_dot = strchr (dns, '*') ;
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> you probably want:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> + const char* first_dot = strchr (dns, '.') ;
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Fixing the patch in that way I was able to get wildcard
>>>>>>>>>> certificates
>>>>>>>>>> to work with iPXE.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>> Ken
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