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Nuruddin_Ahmed_
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Sep 01, 2016

irule for cn value client certificate authentication

Hi, We are doing client certificate authentication using client ssl profile with request setting and it is working. We want to achieve following (requirement is little weired) -   Anyone coming ...
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ekaleido
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Sep 01, 2016

What's the point? If they present a bad certificate they could just stop sending a certificate and be able to get in. And checking the CN is not a very secure thing to check since it could be a faked value. You could potentially give a malicious person access to something you're trying to protect.