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Understanding TLS SSF



Greetings,

I'm testing an installation of openldap 2.4.9. I want to enforce TLS for all access to the directory.
My problem is that I cannot get the client to meet the ssf restictions I have in place. The documentation I've seen on ssf and tls_ssf is very sparse so I don't really understand what it does.

I'm using self signed cert created using the openssl CA.sh script.

Relevant portions of the slapd.conf...

    TLSCACertificateFile /etc/ldap/ssl/cacert.pem
    TLSCertificateFile /etc/ldap/ssl/servercrt.pem
    TLSCertificateKeyFile /etc/ldap/ssl/serverkey.pem
    ...
    access to *
        by tls_ssf=128 ssf=128 anonymous auth
        by tls_ssf=128 ssf=128 self write

Relevant portions of the lapd.conf...

    TLS_CACERT /etc/ldap/ssl/cacert.pem

With those ACLs in place I get the following error:

    $ ldapsearch -x -ZZ -D "uid=jake,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" -W -b "uid=jake,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"
    ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

And slapd in debug mode shows me that I didn't meet the ssf requirments...

    connection_read(15): unable to get TLS client DN, error=49 id=0
    conn=0 fd=15 TLS established tls_ssf=32 ssf=32
    ...
    <= check a_authz.sai_tls_ssf: ACL 128 > OP 32

I'm not really sure where to go from here. Any advice about how to increase the SSF of my connection would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-Jake