Re: [Lynx-dev] SSL certificates

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:23:45PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> to add to all the traffic on the list... I've implemented full
> SSL certificate validation taking into account wildcard certificates
> (only if the wildcard is the first character, I feel it's more secure
> this way) and multiple CNs in the DN (as employed by e.g. cacert.org).
> 
> The code can be seen at the moment at the following address:
> http://mirbsd.mirsolutions.de/cvs.cgi/src/gnu/usr.bin/lynx/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTTP.c?rev=HEAD
> 
> Please look at it; once I received a comment from Tom Dickey I will
> prepare a standard unidiff against 2.8.6dev.17, test that and submit
> it for inclusion into 2.8.6dev.18 (I hope it can make it).

It's going slowly - right now I'm spending 60-70 hours in dayjob-related
stuff, so I haven't done much with lynx for the past month.  But if I
see a patch, I'll add it to my to-do list...

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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