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:
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Number of entries returned 5038
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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>