Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of CertMgr/ToDo

Timestamp:

Jun 27, 2007, 12:31:09 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

wehlhard

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CertMgr/ToDo

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  * Design issue: In my design, the Certificate struct has an ptr to a GnuTLS certificate structure to hold its internal data. This has the consequence that the SSL connection system and X.509 handling must both be provided by GnuTLS; if, say, SILC provides the X.509 handling, and GnuTLS the SSL connections, everything grinds to a gruesome segfaulty halt.
 
- Should I address this? The only workaround I can think of is to keep a pointer to the PEM-formatted certificate in the Certificate struct instead, but that will require any consumers 
+ Should I address this? The only workaround I can think of is to keep a pointer to the PEM-formatted certificate in the Certificate struct instead, but that will require any consumers of the Certificate to have PEM encoding/decoding and constantly decode it from PEM for every use. (June 19)
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  * How to ensure that VerificationRequests get properly trashed in unusual conditions (such as canceling an SSL connection)? (June 26)
-of the Certificate to have PEM encoding/decoding and constantly decode it from PEM for every use. (June 19)
 = Resolved Issues =
  * It looks like PKCS12 (the certificate import/export format) is supported by both libNSS and GnuTLS.