Task #1070
Replace Mono's System.Security library with something better
| Status: | New | Start: | 06/14/2015 | |
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: |  Mirco Bauer |
% Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Engine | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
| Complexity: | High |
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| Votes: | 0 |
Description
IRCS used by Engine-IRC and HTTPS used by Engine-Twitter, Engine-Campfire and Engine-JabbR rely on the X.509 implemented by the CLR. There are many certificate validation issues with Mono's implementation, some of them are documented with known workarounds here: https://smuxi.im/faq/troubleshooting/linux-tls/
Since the .NET Core will not improve the situation with X.509 validation. It relies on the crypto library provided by the operating system, thus Smuxi should seek out into using OpenSSL, GnuTLS, PolarSSL, WolfSSL and the like.
History
Updated by Mirco Bauer 3478 days ago
- Subject changed from Replace Mono's System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates with something better to Replace Mono's System.Security library with something better
Updated by Mirco Bauer 3478 days ago
PoC for certificate validation using PolarSSL in Smuxi: https://github.com/meebey/smuxi/tree/experiments/polarssl_cert_validation
Updated by Mirco Bauer 2903 days ago
As a short term workaround you can use stunnel with Smuxi to connect to SSL/TLS enabled servers, see: https://smuxi.im/faq/usage/stunnel/