On Thursday 20 January 2005 15:27, Samuel Meder wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 15:16 -0500, Rich Salz wrote:
> > > My point is that OpenSSL does work even if the list of certificates
> > > does not comply to to RFC2246 ...  which seems bad to me

-<snipped>-

> If you feel that tightening up is not worth the risk that is fine. We'll
> either just carry a patch or ignore the problem. I really just wanted to
> gauge the situation.

Could your patch be controlled by an option to the SSL or SSL_CTX object?  
That way we can go forward with stricter checking in the future, and the 
possibility of turning off the checking easily at the application level if 
bug-for-bug compatibility dictates.
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