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That brings up an interesting question I'd never thought to ask before. Is there a standard in what order the attributes of a cert are checked for correctness?
by Karunamon 8y ago
That brings up an interesting question I'd never thought to ask before. Is there a standard in what order the attributes of a cert are checked for correctness?
Say I present a self-signed, expired certificate with a bad signature and the wrong domain name. Which one does the user get warned about?
This has important practical concerns. A cert being T+1 second expired is irrelevant from a security standpoint, but if that short-circuits all the other checks...