Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#515 closed Bug / Defect ( fixed )

CN maximum length is set to 63 characters

Reported by: abacate Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Generic / unclassified Version: OpenVPN git master branch (Community Ed)
Severity: Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) Keywords:
Cc:

Description

According to RFC 5280, CN maximum length must be 64.

I had discussed about it on openvpn user mailing list. See this email thread: ​ http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/33242556/

And submitted a patch to openvpn devel mailing list, see here: ​ http://sourceforge.net/p/openvpn/mailman/message/33346005/

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Gert Döring

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

commit ecd934b1ef83eec58eb2df5d3a98309ca56d5812 (master)
commit d7d61b4c2d1f1dd47e779ca38b936f9b99042c82 (release/2.3)

Author: Steffan Karger
Date: Thu Mar 5 22:37:31 2015 +0100

Allow for CN/username of 64 characters (fixes off-by-one)

to be released as part of 2.3.7, in about 2-3 weeks.