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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r57820 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 08:59:27 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Document new shorthand notation for index entries. ........ r57827 | georg.brandl | 2007-08-31 10:47:51 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 2 lines Fix subitem markup. ........ r57833 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-08-31 12:01:07 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line Mark registry components as 64-bit on Win64. ........ r57854 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:23 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line deprecate use of FakeSocket ........ r57855 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:02:46 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove mentions of socket.ssl in comments ........ r57856 | bill.janssen | 2007-08-31 21:03:31 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2007) | 1 line remove use of non-existent SSLFakeSocket in apparently untested code ........ r57859 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-01 08:36:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Bug #1737210: Change Manufacturer of Windows installer to PSF. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57865 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 09:51:24 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix RST link (backport from Py3k). ........ r57876 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-01 17:49:49 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Document sets' ">" and "<" operations (backport from py3k). ........ r57878 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-01 19:40:03 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Added a note and examples to explain that re.split does not split on an empty pattern match. (issue 852532). ........ r57879 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:18:09 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix wrong function names. ........ r57880 | walter.doerwald | 2007-09-01 20:34:05 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix typo. ........ r57889 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:31:59 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Markup fix ........ r57892 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 22:43:36 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add various items ........ r57895 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:17:58 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Wording change ........ r57896 | andrew.kuchling | 2007-09-01 23:18:31 +0200 (Sat, 01 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add more items ........ r57904 | ronald.oussoren | 2007-09-02 11:46:07 +0200 (Sun, 02 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Macosx: this patch ensures that the value of MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET used by the Makefile is also used at configure-time. ........ r57925 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-03 09:16:46 +0200 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix #883466: don't allow Unicode as arguments to quopri and uu codecs. ........ r57936 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 01:33:04 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Added support for linking the bsddb module against BerkeleyDB 4.6.x. ........ r57954 | mark.summerfield | 2007-09-04 10:16:15 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Added cross-references plus a note about dict & list shallow copying. ........ r57958 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 11:51:57 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Document that we rely on the OS to release the crypto context. Fixes #1626801. ........ r57960 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 15:13:14 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1388440: Add set_completion_display_matches_hook and get_completion_type to readline. ........ r57961 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-04 16:19:28 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1031213: Decode source line in SyntaxErrors back to its original source encoding. Will backport to 2.5. ........ r57972 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 20:17:36 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 3 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Run an optional script pybuildbot.identify to include some information about the build environment. ........ r57973 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 21:05:38 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Makefile.pre.in(buildbottest): Remove whitespace at eol. ........ r57975 | matthias.klose | 2007-09-04 22:46:02 +0200 (Tue, 04 Sep 2007) | 2 lines - Fix libffi configure for hppa*-*-linux* | parisc*-*-linux*. ........ r57980 | bill.janssen | 2007-09-05 02:46:27 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 1 line SSL certificate distinguished names should be represented by tuples ........ r57985 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 08:39:17 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #1105: Explain that one needs to build the solution to get dependencies right. ........ r57987 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-05 09:51:21 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. There are probably a number of places that are open to attacks such as the following one, in bltinmodule.c:min_max(). ........ r57991 | martin.v.loewis | 2007-09-05 13:47:34 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 3 lines Patch #786737: Allow building in a tree of symlinks pointing to a readonly source. ........ r57993 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-05 15:36:44 +0200 (Wed, 05 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from Py3k: Bug #1684991: explain lookup semantics for __special__ methods (new-style classes only). ........ r58004 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 10:30:51 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Patch #1733973 by peaker: ptrace_enter_call() assumes no exception is currently set. This assumption is broken when throwing into a generator. ........ r58006 | armin.rigo | 2007-09-06 11:30:38 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 4 lines PyDict_GetItem() returns a borrowed reference. This attack is against ceval.c:IMPORT_NAME, which calls an object (__builtin__.__import__) without holding a reference to it. ........ r58013 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-06 16:49:56 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Backport from 3k: #1116: fix reference to old filename. ........ r58021 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-06 22:26:20 +0200 (Thu, 06 Sep 2007) | 1 line Fix typo: c_float represents to C float type. ........ r58022 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-07 00:29:06 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 3 lines If this is correct for py3k branch and it's already in the release25-maint branch, seems like it ought to be on the trunk as well. ........ r58023 | gregory.p.smith | 2007-09-07 00:59:59 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Apply the fix from Issue1112 to make this test more robust and keep windows happy. ........ r58031 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 05:17:50 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 4 lines Make uuid1 and uuid4 tests conditional on whether ctypes can be imported; implementation of either function depends on ctypes but uuid as a whole does not. ........ r58032 | brett.cannon | 2007-09-07 06:18:30 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Fix a crasher where Python code managed to infinitely recurse in C code without ever going back out to Python code in PyObject_Call(). Required introducing a static RuntimeError instance so that normalizing an exception there is no reliance on a recursive call that would put the exception system over the recursion check itself. ........ r58034 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 08:32:17 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Add a 'c_longdouble' type to the ctypes module. ........ r58035 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:30:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 1 line Remove unneeded #include. ........ r58036 | thomas.heller | 2007-09-07 11:33:24 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 6 lines Backport from py3k branch: Add a workaround for a strange bug on win64, when _ctypes is compiled with the SDK compiler. This should fix the failing Lib\ctypes\test\test_as_parameter.py test. ........ r58037 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 16:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines Fix a wrong indentation for sublists. ........ r58043 | georg.brandl | 2007-09-07 22:10:49 +0200 (Fri, 07 Sep 2007) | 2 lines #1095: ln -f doesn't work portably, fix in Makefile. ........ r58049 | skip.montanaro | 2007-09-08 02:34:17 +0200 (Sat, 08 Sep 2007) | 1 line be explicit about the actual location of the missing file ........
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ssl.rst b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
index 5072caf..852a905 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ssl.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ssl.rst
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ use the first chain it finds in the file which matches.
Some "standard" root certificates are available at
http://www.thawte.com/roots/ (for Thawte roots) and
http://www.verisign.com/support/roots.html (for Verisign roots).
+See also :rfc:`4158` for more discussion of the way in which
+certification chains can be built.
sslsocket Objects
@@ -239,23 +241,23 @@ sslsocket Objects
the certificate), ``notBefore`` (the time before which the certificate should not be trusted),
and ``notAfter`` (the time after which the certificate should not be trusted) filled in.
- The "subject" and "issuer" fields are themselves dictionaries containing the fields given
- in the certificate's data structure for each principal::
-
- {'issuer': {'commonName': u'somemachine.python.org',
- 'countryName': u'US',
- 'localityName': u'Wilmington',
- 'organizationName': u'Python Software Foundation',
- 'organizationalUnitName': u'SSL',
- 'stateOrProvinceName': u'Delaware'},
- 'subject': {'commonName': u'somemachine.python.org',
- 'countryName': u'US',
- 'localityName': u'Wilmington',
- 'organizationName': u'Python Software Foundation',
- 'organizationalUnitName': u'SSL',
- 'stateOrProvinceName': u'Delaware'},
- 'notAfter': 'Sep 4 21:54:26 2007 GMT',
- 'notBefore': 'Aug 25 21:54:26 2007 GMT',
+ The "subject" and "issuer" fields are tuples containing the name-value fields
+ given in the certificate's data structure for each principal::
+
+ {'issuer': (('countryName', u'US'),
+ ('stateOrProvinceName', u'Delaware'),
+ ('localityName', u'Wilmington'),
+ ('organizationName', u'Python Software Foundation'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName', u'SSL'),
+ ('commonName', u'somemachine.python.org')),
+ 'notAfter': 'Feb 16 16:54:50 2013 GMT',
+ 'notBefore': 'Aug 27 16:54:50 2007 GMT',
+ 'subject': (('countryName', u'US'),
+ ('stateOrProvinceName', u'Delaware'),
+ ('localityName', u'Wilmington'),
+ ('organizationName', u'Python Software Foundation'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName', u'SSL'),
+ ('commonName', u'somemachine.python.org')),
'version': 2}
This certificate is said to be *self-signed*, because the subject
@@ -311,27 +313,32 @@ sends some bytes, and reads part of the response::
# note that closing the sslsocket will also close the underlying socket
ssl_sock.close()
-As of August 25, 2007, the certificate printed by this program
+As of September 4, 2007, the certificate printed by this program
looked like this::
- {'issuer': {'commonName': u'VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA',
- 'countryName': u'US',
- 'organizationName': u'VeriSign, Inc.',
- 'organizationalUnitName': u'Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06'},
- 'subject': {'1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2': u'Delaware',
- '1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3': u'US',
- 'commonName': u'www.verisign.com',
- 'countryName': u'US',
- 'localityName': u'Mountain View',
- 'organizationName': u'VeriSign, Inc.',
- 'organizationalUnitName': u'Terms of use at www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06',
- 'postalCode': u'94043',
- 'serialNumber': u'2497886',
- 'stateOrProvinceName': u'California',
- 'streetAddress': u'487 East Middlefield Road'},
- 'notAfter': 'May 8 23:59:59 2009 GMT',
- 'notBefore': 'May 9 00:00:00 2007 GMT',
- 'version': 2}
+ {'issuer': (('countryName', u'US'),
+ ('organizationName', u'VeriSign, Inc.'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName', u'VeriSign Trust Network'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName',
+ u'Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06'),
+ ('commonName',
+ u'VeriSign Class 3 Extended Validation SSL SGC CA')),
+ 'notAfter': 'May 8 23:59:59 2009 GMT',
+ 'notBefore': 'May 9 00:00:00 2007 GMT',
+ 'subject': (('serialNumber', u'2497886'),
+ ('1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3', u'US'),
+ ('1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.2', u'Delaware'),
+ ('countryName', u'US'),
+ ('postalCode', u'94043'),
+ ('stateOrProvinceName', u'California'),
+ ('localityName', u'Mountain View'),
+ ('streetAddress', u'487 East Middlefield Road'),
+ ('organizationName', u'VeriSign, Inc.'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName', u'Production Security Services'),
+ ('organizationalUnitName',
+ u'Terms of use at www.verisign.com/rpa (c)06'),
+ ('commonName', u'www.verisign.com')),
+ 'version': 2}
Server-side operation
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -383,3 +390,5 @@ Class :class:`socket.socket`
`Introducing SSL and Certificates using OpenSSL <http://old.pseudonym.org/ssl/wwwj-index.html>`_, by Frederick J. Hirsch
`Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic Mail: Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management`, :rfc:`1422`, by Steve Kent
+
+`Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and CRL Profile`, :rfc:`3280`, Housley et. al.