Philip,
Similar q came up in
(http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-users@openssl.org/msg15260.html). Your
way seems as good or better than any other I've seen. When you say you are
"creating the X509 cert yourself", I assume you are using something like
PEM_read_X509().
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip J Grabner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: QUESTION: how to retrieve the cert from an SSL_CTX
>
> hi all,
>
> when using the call SSL_CTX_use_certificate_file(), i can't seem to figure
> out how to get the certificate that was loaded... as a "work around", i am
> currently creating the X509 cert myself, and then calling
> SSL_CTX_use_certificate() instead. is there a call to get the certificate
> from the SSL_CTX structure? i tried bypassing the API using:
>
> /* declared earlier: SSL_CTX * ctx; */
> X509 * sx = ctx->cert->key->x509;
>
> but unfortunately ctx->cert (of type cert_st) is not a public structure,
> so i get compile time problems.
>
> any ideas?
>
> TIA,
> phil.
>
>
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