Comment 4 for bug 892522

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Richard Moore (rich-kde) wrote : Re: [Bug 892522] Re: pyOpenSSL has no support for verifying a certificate

That seems to be missing support for intermediate certificates.

Cheers

Rich.

On 7 March 2013 09:27, Johannes Bauer <email address hidden> wrote:
> Created a patch against bazaar trunk, rev 168. Please review and decide
> if this is how I could proceed (then I'd provide the necessary testcases
> etc.).
>
> ** Patch added: "crt-verification.patch"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pyopenssl/+bug/892522/+attachment/3561785/+files/crt-verification.patch
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> Title:
> pyOpenSSL has no support for verifying a certificate
>
> Status in pyOpenSSL:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Currently, whilst pyopenssl /can/ verify a certificate when connecting
> to an SSL server, it does not have a facility to verify a certificate
> chain on its own. The functionality required is provided in openssl
> (eg. the openssl verify command allows this to be done on the command
> line). Adding the required functionality is relatively
> straightforward, and I've implemented it for the Qt project before.
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