As recommended by RFC 2985, section 5.4.1:
ChallengePassword attribute values generated in accordance with this
version of this document SHOULD use the PrintableString encoding
whenever possible. If internationalization issues make this
impossible, the UTF8String alternative SHOULD be used.
Even though the RFC continues with
PKCS #9-attribute processing systems MUST be able to recognize and
process all string types in DirectoryString values.
there might be older SCEP server implementations that don't accept
UTF8String-encoded passwords. In particular because previous versions of
PKCS#9 defined this attribute's type as a CHOICE between PrintableString
and T61String.
References strongswan/strongswan#1831
Some servers might not support a length of 32 and return a malformed
request error. Lowering the value to the previous default of 16 could
help in that case.
The two OPTs that were used previously allowed to omit it completely (hence
the fallback to ID_ANY), but that's invalid, so it's better to fail
parsing.
The has_issuer() and issued_by() methods relied on it to be defined, so
if the OCSP response wasn't successful (i.e. OCSP status indicates an
error and no OCSP response is parsed), a null-pointer dereference was
caused if the caller checked if the OCSP response was issued by a
specific certificate.
That's a side-effect of the referenced commit. Previously, error codes
caused the OCSP response to not get parsed successfully, which technically
wasn't correct as it's well formed and successfully parsed, it's just
indicating an error state.
Fixes: 00ab8d62c0 ("x509: Support generation of OCSP responses")
Instead of the CA certificate's subjectKeyIdentifier erroneously
the CA's authorityKeyIdentifier was used as the authorityKeyIdentfier
of the certificate to be issued. This might work with a root CA
where the authorityKeyIdentifier equals its subjectKeyIdentfier
but introduces a severe regression when an intermediate CA is used.
Instead of just generating an authorityKeyIdentifier based on the
issuer's public key, this allows CA certificates to be issued by a
different tool that doesn't use a SHA-1 hash of the subjectPublicKey
for the subjectKeyIdentifier.
Closesstrongswan/strongswan#1992
References strongswan/strongswan#1975
The x509 plugin retrieves serial numbers with two's complement
encoding whereas the openssl plugin partially returns them without
leading zeroes.
Serial numbers in X.509 certificates, X.509 CRL, X.509 attribute
certificates, OCSP Requests and OCSP responses are now returned in
canonical form without prepended zero octets.
When an X.509 certificate has to be renewed it is helpful to use
the old PKCS#10 certificate request as a template, so that the
distinguishedName (DN), the subjectAlternativeName (SAN) and
a certificate profile name don't have to be typed-in again.
The old public key in the existing certreq is replaced with the
new key and the signature is re-generated using the new private key.
The msCertificateTypeExtension OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.20.2) can
be used in a PKCS#10 certificate request to define a certificate
profile. It consists of an UTF8 string.
pki: profile option
As noted in 8ea13bbc5c newer compilers might optimize out the
assignment leading to invalid values in the keyUsage extension (as the
length was still set, the extension was encoded, just not with the
intended values).
Fixes#3249.
Tobias Brunner