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Janos Follath 088ce43ffe Implement optional CA list suppression in Certificate Request
According to RFC5246 the server can indicate the known Certificate
Authorities or can constrain the aurhorisation space by sending a
certificate list. This part of the message is optional and if omitted,
the client may send any certificate in the response.

The previous behaviour of mbed TLS was to always send the name of all the
CAs that are configured as root CAs. In certain cases this might cause
usability and privacy issues for example:
- If the list of the CA names is longer than the peers input buffer then
  the handshake will fail
- If the configured CAs belong to third parties, this message gives away
  information on the relations to these third parties

Therefore we introduce an option to suppress the CA list in the
Certificate Request message.

Providing this feature as a runtime option comes with a little cost in
code size and advantages in maintenance and flexibility.
2017-05-16 10:22:37 +01:00
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mbedtls Implement optional CA list suppression in Certificate Request 2017-05-16 10:22:37 +01:00
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