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Muhammad_Irfan1
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Nov 29, 2014
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Server and client certificate CN should match or not in client authentication

During client authentication set to require.   F5 certificate CN and Client certificate CN should match?   I uploaded CA bundle through GUI but that is not shown in   /config/file...
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    nitass_89166
    Nov 29, 2014

    F5 certificate CN and Client certificate CN should match?

     

    no, cn should not be the same because they authenticate different things (one authenticates server but the other one authenticates client).

     

    I uploaded CA bundle through GUI but that is not shown in /config/filestore/files_d/Common_d/certificate_d

     

    i understand it is correct. trust_certificate_d is for device trust.

     

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nitass_89166
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Nov 30, 2014

is this client certificate?

4 6 0.0041 (0.0015) C>S Handshake 
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nitass_89166
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Nov 30, 2014
is client certificate verification okay? e.g. client2.crt is client certificate chain.crt is intermediate and root certificates [root@centos1 ca2013] openssl verify -verbose -CAfile chain.crt certs/client2.crt certs/client2.crt: OK Verifying that a Certificate is issued by a CA https://kb.wisc.edu/middleware/page.php?id=4543