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RT2071, some new manpages from Victor B. Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>:
X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir.pod
X509_check_ca.pod
X509_check_issued.pod
RT 1600:
Remove references to non-existant objects(3)
Add RETURN VALUES to BIO_do_accept page.
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RSA_sign Can return values other than 0 on failure.
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Fix AES CBC aliases (Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com>)
RT3678:
Some clarifications to BIO_new_pair
(Devchandra L Meetei <dlmeetei@gmail.com>)
RT3787:
Fix some EVP_ function return values
(Laetitia Baudoin <lbaudoin@google.com>)
Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson <tjh@openssl.org>
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=pod
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=head1 NAME
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X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir, X509_LOOKUP_file,
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X509_load_cert_file,
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X509_load_crl_file,
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X509_load_cert_crl_file - Default OpenSSL certificate
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lookup methods
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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#include <openssl/x509_vfy.h>
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X509_LOOKUP_METHOD *X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir(void);
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X509_LOOKUP_METHOD *X509_LOOKUP_file(void);
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int X509_load_cert_file(X509_LOOKUP *ctx, const char *file, int type);
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int X509_load_crl_file(X509_LOOKUP *ctx, const char *file, int type);
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int X509_load_cert_crl_file(X509_LOOKUP *ctx, const char *file, int type);
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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B<X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir> and B<X509_LOOKUP_file> are two certificate
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lookup methods to use with B<X509_STORE>, provided by OpenSSL library.
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Users of the library typically do not need to create instanses of these
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methods manually, they would be created automatically by
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L<X509_STORE_load_locations(3)> or
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L<SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3)>
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functions.
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Internally loading of certificates and CRLs is implemented via functions
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B<X509_load_cert_crl_file>, B<X509_load_cert_file> and
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B<X509_load_crl_file>. These functions support parameter I<type>, which
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can be one of constants B<FILETYPE_PEM>, B<FILETYPE_ASN1> and
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B<FILETYPE_DEFAULT>. They load certificates and/or CRLs from specified
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file into memory cache of B<X509_STORE> objects which given B<ctx>
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parameter is associated with.
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Functions B<X509_load_cert_file> and
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B<X509_load_crl_file> can load both PEM and DER formats depending of
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type value. Because DER format cannot contain more than one certificate
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or CRL object (while PEM can contain several concatenated PEM objects)
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B<X509_load_cert_crl_file> with B<FILETYPE_ASN1> is equivalent to
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B<X509_load_cert_file>.
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Constant B<FILETYPE_DEFAULT> with NULL filename causes these functions
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to load default certificate store file (see
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L<X509_STORE_set_default_paths>.
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Functions return number of objects loaded from file or 0 in case of
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error.
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Both methods support adding several certificate locations into one
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B<X509_STORE>.
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This page documents certificate store formats used by these methods and
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caching policy.
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=head2 FILE METHOD
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B<X509_LOOKUP_file> method loads entire set of certificates and CRLs
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into memory immediately when file name is passed to it.
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File format is ASCII text which contains concatenated PEM certificates
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and CRLs.
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This method should be used by applications which work with limited set
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of CAs.
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=head2 HASHED DIR METHOD
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B<X509_LOOKUP_hash_dir> is more sophisticated method, which loads
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certificates and CRLs on demand, but caches them in the memory once they
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are loaded. However, since OpenSSL 1.0.0beta1 it checks for newer CRLs
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upon each lookup, so if newer CRL would appear in the directory, it
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would be loaded.
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Directory should contain each certificate and CRL in the separate file
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in the PEM format, with file name derived from certificate subject (or CRL
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issuer) hash, as returned by L<X509_NAME_hash(3)>
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function of with option B<-hash> of L<x509(1)> or
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L<crl(1)> command.
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This hash value is appended by suffix .I<N> for certificates and
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B<.r>I<N> for CRLs where I<N> is sequentual
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number among certificates with same hash value, so it is possible to
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have in the store several certificates with same subject or several CRLs
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with same issuer (and, for example, different validity period).
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When checking for new CRLs once one CRL for given hash value is loaded,
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hash_dir lookup method checks only for certificates with sequentual
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number greater than one of already cached CRL.
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Note that hash algorithm used for subject hashing is changed in OpenSSL
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1.0, so all certificate stores have to be rehashed upon transitopn from
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0.9.8 to 1.0.0.
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OpenSSL includes utility L<c_rehash(1)> which creates
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symlinks with correct hashed names for all files with .pem suffix in the
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given directory.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<pem(3)>, L<d2i_X509_bio(3)>,
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L<X509_STORE_load_locations(3)>,
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L<X609_store_add_lookup(3)>,
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L<SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(3)>,
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=cut
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