Patches item #1114345, was opened at 2005-02-01 15:04 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1114345&group_id=5470
Category: Modules Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: James Eagan (noonian) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Add SSL certificate validation Initial Comment: One line summary: adds certificate validation to the SSL module and programmer-level hooks to control how and whether certificate validation is performed. Details: The current SSL implementation in python goes through the motions of negotiating an SSL connection, but never validates the certificates exchanged. This is like going through the motions of checking someone's photo id, but never making sure the picture matches the person you're talking to. This patch fixes that. This patch adds 3 module-level variables to the socket module, which get exposed iff ssl is built in. These variables (ssl_ca_file, ssl_ca_path, and ssl_verify_level) provide programmer-level access to the certificate authorities database and to control what level of certificate verification is performed (by default, none, as is the current behavior). If certificate verification is enabled, then one of the two certificate authority parameters must be set to a valid certificate authority database or all certificate verification operations will fail. I have an example certificate authority database (extracted from the Java keystore) that I can provide, but I'm not sure how to contribute that through the patch mechanism. Cheers! James Eagan ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=305470&aid=1114345&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Patches mailing list Patches@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/patches
