On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote:
> DanKegel wrote, On 2008-12-18 12:12:
>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ref/ssl/sslfnc.html#1088928
>> says "To obtain the certificate that was rejected by the certificate
>> authentication callback, the callback function calls
>> SSL_PeerCertificate."
>
> The sentence above could be clarified by inserting the words "bad
> certificate", so that it reads "... the bad certicicate callback function
> calls SSL_PeerCertificate".

Done.

>> And it really does mean the callback function.  Once that returns, the
>> information is destroyed, and SSL_PeerCertificate will fail.
>
> Yeah, once the handshake is over, much of the info it used is gone,
> unless the application makes its own copy during the handshake.

I added a note: once the bad-certificate callback function returns,
the peer certificate is destroyed, and SSL_PeerCertificate will fail.

Wan-Teh
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