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| author | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2014-04-07 13:02:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Dr. Stephen Henson <steve@openssl.org> | 2014-04-07 13:03:54 +0100 |
| commit | a4896327e3e8c692438f0a85306f207b84b767f0 (patch) | |
| tree | cd539214d2121fc0e2d157298d62448e782c60a5 | |
| parent | f396e9f4fc609d752eafffc155d4588cc4fffe94 (diff) | |
| download | openssl-new-a4896327e3e8c692438f0a85306f207b84b767f0.tar.gz | |
Document -verify_return_error option.
(cherry picked from commit 4e6c12f3088d3ee5747ec9e16d03fc671b8f40be)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apps/s_client.pod | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apps/s_client.pod b/doc/apps/s_client.pod index ab3547d321..c5c7f18d9d 100644 --- a/doc/apps/s_client.pod +++ b/doc/apps/s_client.pod @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ s_client - SSL/TLS client program B<openssl> B<s_client> [B<-connect host:port>] [B<-verify depth>] +[B<-verify_return_error>] [B<-cert filename>] [B<-certform DER|PEM>] [B<-key filename>] @@ -93,6 +94,11 @@ Currently the verify operation continues after errors so all the problems with a certificate chain can be seen. As a side effect the connection will never fail due to a server certificate verify failure. +=item B<-verify_return_error> + +Return verification errors instead of continuing. This will typically +abort the handshake with a fatal error. + =item B<-CApath directory> The directory to use for server certificate verification. This directory @@ -305,6 +311,13 @@ Since the SSLv23 client hello cannot include compression methods or extensions these will only be supported if its use is disabled, for example by using the B<-no_sslv2> option. +The B<s_client> utility is a test tool and is designed to continue the +handshake after any certificate verification errors. As a result it will +accept any certificate chain (trusted or not) sent by the peer. None test +applications should B<not> do this as it makes them vulnerable to a MITM +attack. This behaviour can be changed by with the B<-verify_return_error> +option: any verify errors are then returned aborting the handshake. + =head1 BUGS Because this program has a lot of options and also because some of @@ -312,9 +325,6 @@ the techniques used are rather old, the C source of s_client is rather hard to read and not a model of how things should be done. A typical SSL client program would be much simpler. -The B<-verify> option should really exit if the server verification -fails. - The B<-prexit> option is a bit of a hack. We should really report information whenever a session is renegotiated. |