curl/docs/cmdline-opts/ssl-auto-client-cert.d
Jay Satiro 54e7475016 schannel: Disable auto credentials; add an option to enable it
- Disable auto credentials by default. This is a breaking change
  for clients that are using it, wittingly or not.

- New libcurl ssl option value CURLSSLOPT_AUTO_CLIENT_CERT tells libcurl
  to automatically locate and use a client certificate for
  authentication, when requested by the server.

- New curl tool options --ssl-auto-client-cert and
  --proxy-ssl-auto-client-cert map to CURLSSLOPT_AUTO_CLIENT_CERT.

This option is only supported for Schannel (the native Windows SSL
library). Prior to this change Schannel would, with no notification to
the client, attempt to locate a client certificate and send it to the
server, when requested by the server. Since the server can request any
certificate that supports client authentication in the OS certificate
store it could be a privacy violation and unexpected.

Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2262
Reported-by: Jeroen Ooms
Assisted-by: Wes Hinsley
Assisted-by: Rich FitzJohn

Ref: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2021-02/0066.html
Reported-by: Morten Minde Neergaard

Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/6673
2021-04-22 16:53:37 -04:00

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Long: ssl-auto-client-cert
Help: Use auto client certificate (Schannel)
Added: 7.77.0
See-also: proxy-ssl-auto-client-cert
Category: tls
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Tell libcurl to automatically locate and use a client certificate for
authentication, when requested by the server. This option is only supported
for Schannel (the native Windows SSL library). Prior to 7.77.0 this was the
default behavior in libcurl with Schannel. Since the server can request any
certificate that supports client authentication in the OS certificate store it
could be a privacy violation and unexpected.