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Re: SSL module needs issuer information

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On 9/3/2011 2:10 PM, John Nagle wrote:
> The SSL module still doesn't return much information from the
> certificate. SSLSocket.getpeercert only returns a few basic items
> about the certificate subject. You can't retrieve issuer information,
> and you can't get the extensions needed to check if a cert is an EV cert.
>
> With the latest flaps about phony cert issuers, it's worth
> having issuer info available. It was available in the old M2Crypto
> module, but not in the current Python SSL module.

Check the tracker to see if there is an issue about this already. If 
not, open one with a specific feature request.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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SSL module needs issuer information John Nagle <nagle@animats.com> - 2011-09-03 11:10 -0700
  Re: SSL module needs issuer information Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-09-03 15:23 -0400
  Re: SSL module needs issuer information Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 02:15 +0200

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