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o : openca-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 16 January 2009 • 10:57AM -0500

[OpenCA-Devel] Eeeks! Private keys downloadable from public interface
by John A. Sullivan III

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In OpenCA 0.9.3, keys could only be downloaded from the public interface
if the downloader knew both the key's password and a separate download
password.  Thus, I was absolutely shocked when I found users could
download private keys from the public interface in 1.0.2 simply by
knowing the private key password.

We happen to make heavy use of server side generated keys so this seems
like a dramatic weakening of security.  May I ask why it was done? Is
there a way to revert to the old behavior?

We tried setting an enrollment password on the key from the RA but this
did not change anything.  In the past, we simply did not set a download
password and users could not download keys from the public interface
(this was our design choice).

Thus we are left rather embarrassed in front of our clients with this
dramatically weakened security.  We'd love to see it revert to the
former behavior piu presto possible.  Please let me know if there is
anything I can do to help.  Thanks - John
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John A. Sullivan III
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