Re: Apache http ssl certificate - export -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Apache http ssl certificate - export
From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:02:19 -0600
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 3:51 PM Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

you guys are a gift...

awwwwwwwwwww .... :)

which ONLY allows those I give this certificate to to pass into my apache
http server...
and in my eyes, this creates a form of authentication/authorization... no?

NO. The server cert is ONLY an ASSERTION OF IDENTITY. If a bad player wants
to IGNORE it or ACCEPT IT WITHOUT PROOF they are FREE TO DO SO.

*No server protection at all is provided by the server cert!*

It's a way of protecting the CLIENT and assuring them that they are really
talking to the system they think they have connected to!

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