Rob Crittenden fa3a69f91f Use the python-cryptography parser directly in cert-find
cert-find is a rather complex beast because it not only
looks for certificates in the optional CA but within the
IPA LDAP database as well. It has a process to deduplicate
the certificates since any PKI issued certificates will
also be associated with an IPA record.

In order to obtain the data to deduplicate the certificates
the cert from LDAP must be parser for issuer and serial number.
ipaldap has automation to determine the datatype of an
attribute and will use the ipalib.x509 IPACertificate class to
decode a certificate automatically if you access
entry['usercertificate'].

The downside is that this is comparatively slow. Here is the
parse time in microseconds:

cryptography 0.0081
OpenSSL.crypto 0.2271
ipalib.x509 2.6814

Since only issuer and subject are required there is no need to
make the expensive IPACertificate call.

The IPACertificate parsing time is fine if you're parsing one
certificate but if the LDAP search returns a lot of certificates,
say in the thousands, then those microseconds add up quickly.
In testing it took ~17 seconds to parse 5k certificates (excluding
transmission overhead, etc).

cert-find when there are a lot of certificates has been
historically slow. It isn't related to the CA which returns
large sets (well, 5k anyway) in a second or two. It was the
LDAP comparision adding tens of seconds to the runtime.

When searching with the default sizelimit of 100 the time is
~10s without this patch. With it the time is 1.5s.

CLI times from before and after searching for all certs:

original:

-------------------------------
Number of entries returned 5038
-------------------------------
real    0m15.507s
user    0m0.828s
sys     0m0.241s

using cryptography:

real    0m4.037s
user    0m0.816s
sys     0m0.193s

Fixes: https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/9331

Signed-off-by: Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>
Reviewed-By: Florence Blanc-Renaud <frenaud@redhat.com>
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FreeIPA Server

FreeIPA allows Linux administrators to centrally manage identity, authentication and access control aspects of Linux and UNIX systems by providing simple to install and use command line and web based management tools.

FreeIPA is built on top of well known Open Source components and standard protocols with a very strong focus on ease of management and automation of installation and configuration tasks.

FreeIPA can seamlessly integrate into an Active Directory environment via cross-realm Kerberos trust or user synchronization.

Benefits

FreeIPA:

  • Allows all your users to access all the machines with the same credentials and security settings
  • Allows users to access personal files transparently from any machine in an authenticated and secure way
  • Uses an advanced grouping mechanism to restrict network access to services and files only to specific users
  • Allows central management of security mechanisms like passwords, SSH Public Keys, SUDO rules, Keytabs, Access Control Rules
  • Enables delegation of selected administrative tasks to other power users
  • Integrates into Active Directory environments

Components

The FreeIPA project provides unified installation and management tools for the following components:

Project Website

Releases, announcements and other information can be found on the IPA server project page at http://www.freeipa.org/ .

Documentation

The most up-to-date documentation can be found at http://freeipa.org/page/Documentation .

Quick Start

To get started quickly, start here: http://www.freeipa.org/page/Quick_Start_Guide

For developers

Licensing

Please see the file called COPYING.

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