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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:07:17 +0100
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: tlsify@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Interface design considerations
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 12:42:31PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 03:43:19PM +0100, Joakim Sindholt wrote:
> > > Then there are things like STARTTLS. Even "openssl s_client" includes a
> > > "-starttls" option. If we don't want this sort of feature creep, what
> > > do we propose instead? That programs adding tlsify also implement their
> > > own support for STARTTLS or such, and perhaps swap fd's with dup2()
> > > after having invoked tlsify? Will we provide an example? Maybe it
> > > could be in the form of much smaller patches for (net)qmail than these:
> >
> > I'm no expert in STARTTLS but it looks to me like it can be done by the
> > application. If at all possible it should not be the job of tlsify to
> > implement your protocol for you. It just does TLS.
> > To steal an example from Wikipedia:
> >
> > S: 220 mail.example.org ESMTP service ready
> > C: EHLO client.example.org
> > S: 250-mail.example.org offers a warm hug of welcome
> > S: 250 STARTTLS
> > C: STARTTLS
> > S: 220 Go ahead
> > At this point the client posix_spawns a tlsify instance, giving it the
> > fd and continuing communication on the newly created cleartext fd. If
> > you need it to be the same fd, just dup2 over the one you handed to
> > tlsify.
>
> Yes, this works, but it does reveal quite a bit about the types of
> certificate validation schemes that might be required.
Reveal from where to where? Do you mean in terms of complicating the
API or in terms of information disclosure?
> The present renewed interest in tlsify actually arose out of my
> implementation of the same concept internally in mxclient[1], doing
> starttls via replacing the original socket with one end of a
> socketpair to a thread doing the tls session, but without the "public
> API" aspect of tlsify, which is really the valuable/important part
> that's still an open problem.
>
> Rich
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/richfelker/mxclient/
Oh, so once we have tlsify mxclient should become one its example uses?
Alexander
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