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Storing TLS credentials in the directory



One of the things that has been a long-standing obstacle to the automatic CA code is the fact that there's no LDAP syntax/matchingrule/attributes for storing private keys in the directory. There's schema for storing userCertificate and cAcertificate, but not the corresponding keys. This is also a stumbling block for being able to configure TLS directly in cn=config, instead of using separate files.

Currently the autoca overlay defines a syntax and matching rule for use with private keys but this needs to move into the core code so that back-config can also use it. At this point I need to pick an OID arc for it, which prompted me to troll thru all the existing OID assignments.

It's clear that nobody in the standards organizations considers storing private keys in the directory to be a safe thing to do. IMO this is just a matter of password security and good ACLs, and the standards should not preclude the option. It is no worse than storing userPassword.

Comments?

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- Log -----------------------------------------------------------------
commit 79284a06d3bea085ed92f17f2a2b5a15746f83a0
Author: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 9 03:55:01 2017 +0100

    Catalog of assigned OID arcs

    With some specific elements as well, but not exhaustively listed.
    Patches welcome.

commit 2012795d3b1a29913e9f3a5b3a35d40fd8f5f903
Author: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 9 02:21:06 2017 +0100

    Add config support for binary values

    Use base64 for .conf files, straight binary for back-config

commit b402a2805f8b96d2751a7315ea5e70e5082965ed
Author: Howard Chu <hyc@openldap.org>
Date:   Sun Apr 9 00:13:42 2017 +0100

    Add options to use DER format cert+keys directly

    Instead of loading from files.

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Summary of changes:
 doc/devel/OIDs               |   69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/ldap.h               |    3 ++
 libraries/libldap/ldap-int.h |    6 ++++
 libraries/libldap/tls2.c     |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 libraries/libldap/tls_o.c    |   56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 servers/slapd/bconfig.c      |   13 +++++++-
 servers/slapd/config.c       |   34 +++++++++++++++++++--
 servers/slapd/config.h       |    2 ++
 8 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/devel/OIDs


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  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
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