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author | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2022-01-13 15:16:39 +0000 |
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committer | Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> | 2022-02-02 14:17:19 +0000 |
commit | 7349bf14be158ed8190d7d94dad5c6dec22e4908 (patch) | |
tree | 3e357ea314c7b80b1bb1ccdcbe109ef832c27c7d | |
parent | aaa583758ff42a5443ac853b19b6158791bbb8e1 (diff) |
Document purpose and trust setting functions
In particular:
X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose()
X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust();
X509_STORE_CTX_purpose_inherit();
Reviewed-by: Shane Lontis <shane.lontis@oracle.com>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/17604)
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man3/X509_STORE_CTX_new.pod | 69 |
1 files changed, 68 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man3/X509_STORE_CTX_new.pod b/doc/man3/X509_STORE_CTX_new.pod index aba7fff781..bd179e6274 100644 --- a/doc/man3/X509_STORE_CTX_new.pod +++ b/doc/man3/X509_STORE_CTX_new.pod @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ X509_STORE_CTX_get0_untrusted, X509_STORE_CTX_set0_untrusted, X509_STORE_CTX_get_num_untrusted, X509_STORE_CTX_set_default, X509_STORE_CTX_set_verify, -X509_STORE_CTX_verify_fn +X509_STORE_CTX_verify_fn, +X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose, +X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust, +X509_STORE_CTX_purpose_inherit - X509_STORE_CTX initialisation =head1 SYNOPSIS @@ -44,6 +47,11 @@ X509_STORE_CTX_verify_fn typedef int (*X509_STORE_CTX_verify_fn)(X509_STORE_CTX *); void X509_STORE_CTX_set_verify(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx, X509_STORE_CTX_verify_fn verify); + int X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx, int purpose); + int X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx, int trust); + int X509_STORE_CTX_purpose_inherit(X509_STORE_CTX *ctx, int def_purpose, + int purpose, int trust); + =head1 DESCRIPTION These functions initialise an B<X509_STORE_CTX> structure for subsequent use @@ -120,6 +128,65 @@ following signature: This function should receive the current X509_STORE_CTX as a parameter and return 1 on success or 0 on failure. +X509 certificates may contain information about what purposes keys contained +within them can be used for. For example "TLS WWW Server Authentication" or +"Email Protection". This "key usage" information is held internally to the +certificate itself. In addition the trust store containing trusted certificates +can declare what purposes we trust different certificates for. This "trust" +information is not held within the certificate itself but is "meta" information +held alongside it. This "meta" information is associated with the certificate +after it is issued and could be determined by a system administrator. For +example a certificate might declare that it is suitable for use for both +"TLS WWW Server Authentication" and "TLS Client Authentication", but a system +administrator might only trust it for the former. An X.509 certificate extension +exists that can record extended key usage information to supplement the purpose +information described above. This extended mechanism is arbitrarily extensible +and not well suited for a generic library API; applications that need to +validate extended key usage information in certifiates will need to define a +custom "purpose" (see below) or supply a nondefault verification callback +(L<X509_STORE_set_verify_cb_func(3)>). + +X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose() sets the purpose for the target certificate being +verified in the I<ctx>. Built-in available values for the I<purpose> argument +are B<X509_PURPOSE_SSL_CLIENT>, B<X509_PURPOSE_SSL_SERVER>, +B<X509_PURPOSE_NS_SSL_SERVER>, B<X509_PURPOSE_SMIME_SIGN>, +B<X509_PURPOSE_SMIME_ENCRYPT>, B<X509_PURPOSE_CRL_SIGN>, B<X509_PURPOSE_ANY>, +B<X509_PURPOSE_OCSP_HELPER> and B<X509_PURPOSE_TIMESTAMP_SIGN>. It is also +possible to create a custom purpose value. Setting a purpose will ensure that +the key usage declared within certificates in the chain being verified is +consistent with that purpose as well as, potentially, other checks. Every +purpose also has an associated default trust value which will also be set at the +same time. During verification this trust setting will be verified to check it +is consistent with the trust set by the system administrator for certificates in +the chain. + +X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust() sets the trust value for the target certificate +being verified in the I<ctx>. Built-in available values for the I<trust> +argument are B<X509_TRUST_COMPAT>, B<X509_TRUST_SSL_CLIENT>, +B<X509_TRUST_SSL_SERVER>, B<X509_TRUST_EMAIL>, B<X509_TRUST_OBJECT_SIGN>, +B<X509_TRUST_OCSP_SIGN>, B<X509_TRUST_OCSP_REQUEST> and B<X509_TRUST_TSA>. It is +also possible to create a custom trust value. Since X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose() +also sets the trust value it is normally sufficient to only call that function. +If both are called then X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust() should be called after +X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose() since the trust setting of the last call will be +used. + +It should not normally be necessary for end user applications to call +X509_STORE_CTX_purpose_inherit() directly. Typically applications should call +X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose() or X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust() instead. Using this +function it is possible to set the purpose and trust values for the I<ctx> at +the same time. The I<def_purpose> and I<purpose> arguments can have the same +purpose values as described for X509_STORE_CTX_set_purpose() above. The I<trust> +argument can have the same trust values as described in +X509_STORE_CTX_set_trust() above. Any of the I<def_purpose>, I<purpose> or +I<trust> values may also have the value 0 to indicate that the supplied +parameter should be ignored. After calling this function the purpose to be used +for verification is set from the I<purpose> argument, and the trust is set from +the I<trust> argument. If I<trust> is 0 then the trust value will be set from +the default trust value for I<purpose>. If the default trust value for the +purpose is I<X509_TRUST_DEFAULT> and I<trust> is 0 then the default trust value +associated with the I<def_purpose> value is used for the trust setting instead. + =head1 NOTES The certificates and CRLs in a store are used internally and should B<not> |