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Comment by dextercd

The server that wants to authenticate clients via mTLS doesn't need the clientAuth EKU on its certificate, only the clients do.

Most of the time you set up mTLS by creating your own self-signed certificate and verifying that the client has that cert (or one that chains up to it). I'm wondering what systems exist that need a publicly trusted cert with clientAuth.

Only think I've heard of so far is XMPP for server-to-server auth, but there are alternative auth methods it supports.

parent dextercd 9 months ago

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