[jira] [Assigned] (PROTON-161) SSL impl does not allow verification of the peer's identity

["Ken Giusti (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-161?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Ken Giusti reassigned PROTON-161:
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    Assignee: Philip Harvey  (was: Ken Giusti)

Just fixed this on the proton-c side.  Needed a change to the API (configure the hostname string, and a new verify option in "set_verify").

Added new tests, which are skipped on Java. 

Does proton-j already support this (hostname check in cert)?  If so, we can just close this jira.  
                
> SSL impl does not allow verification of the peer's identity
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PROTON-161
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-161
>             Project: Qpid Proton
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: proton-j
>    Affects Versions: 0.3
>            Reporter: Ken Giusti
>            Assignee: Philip Harvey
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> The current SSL implementation validates the peer's certificate, and will not permit the connection to come up if the certificate is invalid.
> However - it does not provide a way to check if the peer's identity as provided in the certificate is the expected identity (eg, the same hostname used to set up the TCP connection).  While a certificate may be valid (that is, signed by a CA trusted by the client), it may not belong to the intended destination.
> RFC2818 explains how this should be done - see section 3.1 Server Identity. 

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