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sslutil: per-host config option to define certificates Recent work has introduced the [hostsecurity] config section for defining per-host security settings. This patch builds on top of this foundation and implements the ability to define a per-host path to a file containing certificates used for verifying the server certificate. It is logically a per-host web.cacerts setting. This patch also introduces a warning when both per-host certificates and fingerprints are defined. These are mutually exclusive for host verification and I think the user should be alerted when security settings are ambiguous because, well, security is important. Tests validating the new behavior have been added. I decided against putting "ca" in the option name because a non-CA certificate can be specified and used to validate the server certificate (commonly this will be the exact public certificate used by the server). It's worth noting that the underlying Python API used is load_verify_locations(cafile=X) and it calls into OpenSSL's SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(). Even OpenSSL's documentation seems to omit that the file can contain a non-CA certificate if it matches the server's certificate exactly. I thought a CA certificate was a special kind of x509 certificate. Perhaps I'm wrong and any x509 certificate can be used as a CA certificate [as far as OpenSSL is concerned]. In any case, I thought it best to drop "ca" from the name because this reflects reality.

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dummycert.pem
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A dummy certificate that will make OS X 10.6+ Python use the system CA
certificate store:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIBIzCBzgIJANjmj39sb3FmMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMBkxFzAVBgNVBAMTDmhn
LmV4YW1wbGUuY29tMB4XDTE0MDgzMDA4NDU1OVoXDTE0MDgyOTA4NDU1OVowGTEX
MBUGA1UEAxMOaGcuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20wXDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAANLADBIAkEA
mh/ZySGlcq0ALNLmA1gZqt61HruywPrRk6WyrLJRgt+X7OP9FFlEfl2tzHfzqvmK
CtSQoPINWOdAJMekBYFgKQIDAQABMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAA0EAF9h49LkSqJ6a
IlpogZuUHtihXeKZBsiktVIDlDccYsNy0RSh9XxUfhk+XMLw8jBlYvcltSXdJ7We
aKdQRekuMQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
This certificate was generated to be syntactically valid but never be usable;
it expired before it became valid.
Created as:
$ cat > cn.conf << EOT
> [req]
> distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
> [req_distinguished_name]
> commonName = Common Name
> commonName_default = no.example.com
> EOT
$ openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout /dev/null \
> -out dummycert.pem -days -1 -config cn.conf -subj '/CN=hg.example.com'
To verify the content of this certificate:
$ openssl x509 -in dummycert.pem -noout -text
Certificate:
Data:
Version: 1 (0x0)
Serial Number: 15629337334278746470 (0xd8e68f7f6c6f7166)
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
Issuer: CN=hg.example.com
Validity
Not Before: Aug 30 08:45:59 2014 GMT
Not After : Aug 29 08:45:59 2014 GMT
Subject: CN=hg.example.com
Subject Public Key Info:
Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
Public-Key: (512 bit)
Modulus:
00:9a:1f:d9:c9:21:a5:72:ad:00:2c:d2:e6:03:58:
19:aa:de:b5:1e:bb:b2:c0:fa:d1:93:a5:b2:ac:b2:
51:82:df:97:ec:e3:fd:14:59:44:7e:5d:ad:cc:77:
f3:aa:f9:8a:0a:d4:90:a0:f2:0d:58:e7:40:24:c7:
a4:05:81:60:29
Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
17:d8:78:f4:b9:12:a8:9e:9a:22:5a:68:81:9b:94:1e:d8:a1:
5d:e2:99:06:c8:a4:b5:52:03:94:37:1c:62:c3:72:d1:14:a1:
f5:7c:54:7e:19:3e:5c:c2:f0:f2:30:65:62:f7:25:b5:25:dd:
27:b5:9e:68:a7:50:45:e9:2e:31