Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 61 at 2005-12-30.
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Method Tools.X509.verify_certificate()


Method verify_certificate

TBSCertificate Tools.X509.verify_certificate(string s, mapping authorities)

Description

Decodes a certificate, checks the signature. Returns the TBSCertificate structure, or 0 if decoding or verification failes.

Authorities is a mapping from (DER-encoded) names to a verifiers.

Note

This function allows self-signed certificates, and it doesn't check that names or extensions make sense.