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authorBenjamin Kaduk <bkaduk@akamai.com>2017-10-18 15:29:18 -0500
committerBen Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>2017-12-12 19:08:22 -0600
commit1f0067ec9a8d2ab71132604b4a1a5dd9ffab4f23 (patch)
tree5d068ed26444260d345a1f76feb302bf01c266f4 /doc
parente1e59ecada5092fdb71cb20ec3a944733c96bf01 (diff)
Add an API to get the signer of an OCSP response
Add a new function OCSP_resp_get0_signer() that looks in the certs bundled with the response as well as in additional certificates provided as a function argument, returning the certificate that signed the given response (if present). Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org> (cherry picked from commit ce5886dda80b6f60fb30762381506d5c6f2d995c) Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4723)
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-rw-r--r--doc/crypto/OCSP_resp_find_status.pod15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/crypto/OCSP_resp_find_status.pod b/doc/crypto/OCSP_resp_find_status.pod
index 36f66a858f..3a6e747158 100644
--- a/doc/crypto/OCSP_resp_find_status.pod
+++ b/doc/crypto/OCSP_resp_find_status.pod
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
=head1 NAME
OCSP_resp_get0_certs,
+OCSP_resp_get0_signer,
OCSP_resp_get0_id,
OCSP_resp_get0_produced_at,
OCSP_resp_find_status, OCSP_resp_count, OCSP_resp_get0, OCSP_resp_find,
@@ -32,6 +33,9 @@ OCSP_single_get0_status, OCSP_check_validity
const STACK_OF(X509) *OCSP_resp_get0_certs(const OCSP_BASICRESP *bs);
+ int OCSP_resp get0_signer(OCSP_BASICRESP *bs, X509 **signer,
+ STACK_OF(X509) *extra_certs);
+
int OCSP_resp_get0_id(const OCSP_BASICRESP *bs,
const ASN1_OCTET_STRING **pid,
const X509_NAME **pname);
@@ -72,7 +76,13 @@ single response B<bs>.
OCSP_resp_get0_certs() returns any certificates included in B<bs>.
-OCSP_resp_get0_id() gets the responder id of <bs>. If the responder ID is
+OCSP_resp_get0_signer() attempts to retrive the certificate that directly
+signed B<bs>. The OCSP protocol does not require that this certificate
+is included in the B<certs> field of the response, so additional certificates
+can be supplied in B<extra_certs> if the certificates that may have
+signed the response are known via some out-of-band mechanism.
+
+OCSP_resp_get0_id() gets the responder id of B<bs>. If the responder ID is
a name then <*pname> is set to the name and B<*pid> is set to NULL. If the
responder ID is by key ID then B<*pid> is set to the key ID and B<*pname>
is set to NULL.
@@ -99,6 +109,9 @@ B<id> was not found.
OCSP_single_get0_status() returns the status of B<single> or -1 if an error
occurred.
+OCSP_resp_get0_signer() returns 1 if the signing certificate was located,
+or 0 on error.
+
=head1 NOTES
Applications will typically call OCSP_resp_find_status() using the certificate