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A null-prefixed CN cert would be neat #4

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bagder opened this issue Mar 12, 2015 · 3 comments
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A null-prefixed CN cert would be neat #4

bagder opened this issue Mar 12, 2015 · 3 comments
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bagder commented Mar 12, 2015

Remember that old flaw when you set a CN or SAN to be "hostname\0another host" which caused much problems back in the days? Would be neat to have a test specifically for that just to make sure there aren't clients still using strcmp() or similar to match the cert names.
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oej commented Mar 12, 2015

Yes. Cool. Need to figure out how to create it.

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oej commented Mar 20, 2015

Found out how to create it:
https://fotisl.com/blog/2009/10/the-null-certificate-prefix-bug/comment-page-1/

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oej commented Apr 27, 2015

Got permission to use his code for our tests. Cool!

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