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[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-18857) Allow CQL client certificate authentication to work without sending an AUTHENTICATE request

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18857?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andy Tolbert updated CASSANDRA-18857:
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    Summary: Allow CQL client certificate authentication to work without sending an AUTHENTICATE request  (was: Allow CQL client certificate authentication to work without sending an AUTHENTICATE request to client)

> Allow CQL client certificate authentication to work without sending an AUTHENTICATE request
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-18857
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18857
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Feature/Encryption
>            Reporter: Andy Tolbert
>            Priority: Normal
>
> Currently when using {{MutualTlsAuthenticator}} or {{MutualTlsWithPasswordFallbackAuthenticator}} a client is prompted with an {{AUTHENTICATE}} message to which they must respond with an {{AUTH_RESPONSE}} (e.g. a user name and password).  This shouldn't be needed as the role can be identified using only the certificate.
> To address this, we could add the capability to authenticate early in processing of a {{STARTUP}} message if we can determine that both the configured authenticator supports certificate authentication and a client certificate was provided.  If the certificate can be authenticated, a {{READY}} response is returned, otherwise an {{ERROR}} is returned.
> This change can be done done in a fully backwards compatible way and requires no protocol or driver changes;  I will supply a patch shortly!



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