X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/8d69247061599b35b60308ca4b75ba529b8dcba2..cdeb6856e69a0035df8fc06f11787c755a1cc274:/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt index 8192f3d76..16c0f56da 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt +++ b/doc/doc-txt/experimental-spec.txt @@ -1146,34 +1146,6 @@ Adding it to a redirect router makes no difference. -Certificate name checking --------------------------------------------------------------- -The X509 certificates used for TLS are supposed be verified -that they are owned by the expected host. The coding of TLS -support to date has not made these checks. - -If built with EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES defined, code is -included to do so for server certificates, and a new smtp transport option -"tls_verify_cert_hostname" supported which takes a list of -names for which the checks must be made. The host must -also be in "tls_verify_hosts". - -Both Subject and Subject-Alternate-Name certificate fields -are supported, as are wildcard certificates (limited to -a single wildcard being the initial component of a 3-or-more -component FQDN). - -The equivalent check on the server for client certificates is not -implemented. At least one major email provider is using a client -certificate which fails this check. They do not retry either without -hte client certificate or in clear. - -It is possible to duplicate the effect of this checking by -creative use of Events. - - - - DANE ------------------------------------------------------------ DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities, as applied