Re: Expiration of trust roots

2007-04-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:30 PM +0100 4/12/07, Gervase Markham wrote: >Paul Hoffman wrote: >> At 10:00 AM + 3/14/07, Gervase Markham wrote: >>> Paul Hoffman wrote: A related question that I was intending to do some research on: if a trust anchor ("trusted root" in this thread) has an expiration date >

Re: API questions

2007-04-12 Thread Wan-Teh Chang
Rob Crittenden wrote: > > I ended up going with a layer that doesn't define any methods. Seems to > be working ok. I originally assumed the order of the layers and would do > things like: mydata = ssl->lower->secret but later changed it to fetch > the layer by name and retrieve the data directly

Re: Restricting roots to one TLD

2007-04-12 Thread Gervase Markham
Nelson Bolyard wrote: > Your proposal would require storing the equivalent of a name constraints > extension along with the root CA cert. It would also require additional > processing, because name constraints are generally not processed inside > trust anchors. That is, usually a CA puts the name

Re: Expiration of trust roots

2007-04-12 Thread Gervase Markham
Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 10:00 AM + 3/14/07, Gervase Markham wrote: >> Paul Hoffman wrote: >>> A related question that I was intending to do some research on: if a >>> trust anchor ("trusted root" in this thread) has an expiration date >>> in the past, doe NSS still treat it as a trust anchor

Re: API questions

2007-04-12 Thread Rob Crittenden
Wan-Teh Chang wrote: > Rob Crittenden wrote: >> Wan-Teh Chang wrote: >>> Rob Crittenden wrote: 2. If I call PR_Shutdown() on an SSL socket, is there a way later to see the flags I called it with? For example, if I call it just with PR_SHUTDOWN_SEND is there a way I can find that ou