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Re: Checking CA expiration
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Michael Welsh Duggan |
Subject: |
Re: Checking CA expiration |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:37:13 -0400 |
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Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <address@hidden> writes:
> On 10/19/2011 08:30 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
>> In our code, we add CAs to our credentials using
>> gnutls_set_x509_trust_file. In gnutls 2.x, we then get a list of the
>> CAs using gnutls_certificate_get_x509_cas which we then use to verify
>> that at least one of the CAs has not yet expired. We want to do this
>> _before_ initiating a session.
>> Is this possible in gnutls 3.x? gnutls_certificate_get_x509_cas has
>> gone away, supposedly in favor of gnutls_certificate_get_issuer(), but
>> that requires an existing session.
>
> Why not use gnutls_x509_crt_list_import() or
> gnutls_x509_crt_list_import2() and traverse the list of the CAs? The
> access to the the CA list in the credentials structure has been
> restricted to allow for future internal changes.
Yup this works. There are so many API calls, it can be difficult to
determine which ones to use.
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Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)