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authorDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2015-07-31 08:49:50 +0100
committerRich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org>2015-09-05 16:17:15 -0400
commitd35ff2c0ade0a12e84aaa2e9841b4983a2f3cf45 (patch)
treeea7207dd84a2a5ab1e18e9f9711cb966e46751a0 /doc
parent2519b4e18101a7e987dad842084cd1da5da5c191 (diff)
RT3951: Add X509_V_FLAG_NO_CHECK_TIME to suppress time check
In some environments, such as firmware, the current system time is entirely meaningless. Provide a clean mechanism to suppress the checks against it. Signed-off-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@akamai.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
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-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod b/doc/crypto/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
index ec91d5dced..166e316a1e 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags.pod
@@ -203,6 +203,10 @@ chain found is not trusted, then OpenSSL will continue to check to see if an
alternative chain can be found that is trusted. With this flag set the behaviour
will match that of OpenSSL versions prior to 1.1.0.
+The B<X509_V_FLAG_NO_CHECK_TIME> flag suppresses checking the validity period
+of certificates and CRLs against the current time. If X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_time()
+is used to specify a verification time, the check is not suppressed.
+
=head1 NOTES
The above functions should be used to manipulate verification parameters