sslutil: emit warning when no CA certificates loaded
If no CA certificates are loaded, that is almost certainly a/the
reason certificate verification fails when connecting to a server.
The modern ssl module in Python 2.7.9+ provides an API to access
the list of loaded CA certificates. This patch emits a warning
on modern Python when certificate verification fails and there are
no loaded CA certificates.
There is no way to detect the number of loaded CA certificates
unless the modern ssl module is present. Hence the differences
in test output depending on whether modern ssl is available.
It's worth noting that a test which specifies a CA file still
renders this warning. That is because the certificate it is loading
is a x509 client certificate and not a CA certificate. This
test could be updated if anyone is so inclined.
A dummy certificate that will make OS X 10.6+ Python use the system CA
certificate store:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIBIzCBzgIJANjmj39sb3FmMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAMBkxFzAVBgNVBAMTDmhn
LmV4YW1wbGUuY29tMB4XDTE0MDgzMDA4NDU1OVoXDTE0MDgyOTA4NDU1OVowGTEX
MBUGA1UEAxMOaGcuZXhhbXBsZS5jb20wXDANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAANLADBIAkEA
mh/ZySGlcq0ALNLmA1gZqt61HruywPrRk6WyrLJRgt+X7OP9FFlEfl2tzHfzqvmK
CtSQoPINWOdAJMekBYFgKQIDAQABMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBQUAA0EAF9h49LkSqJ6a
IlpogZuUHtihXeKZBsiktVIDlDccYsNy0RSh9XxUfhk+XMLw8jBlYvcltSXdJ7We
aKdQRekuMQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
This certificate was generated to be syntactically valid but never be usable;
it expired before it became valid.
Created as:
$ cat > cn.conf << EOT
> [req]
> distinguished_name = req_distinguished_name
> [req_distinguished_name]
> commonName = Common Name
> commonName_default = no.example.com
> EOT
$ openssl req -nodes -new -x509 -keyout /dev/null \
> -out dummycert.pem -days -1 -config cn.conf -subj '/CN=hg.example.com'
To verify the content of this certificate:
$ openssl x509 -in dummycert.pem -noout -text
Certificate:
Data:
Version: 1 (0x0)
Serial Number: 15629337334278746470 (0xd8e68f7f6c6f7166)
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
Issuer: CN=hg.example.com
Validity
Not Before: Aug 30 08:45:59 2014 GMT
Not After : Aug 29 08:45:59 2014 GMT
Subject: CN=hg.example.com
Subject Public Key Info:
Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
Public-Key: (512 bit)
Modulus:
00:9a:1f:d9:c9:21:a5:72:ad:00:2c:d2:e6:03:58:
19:aa:de:b5:1e:bb:b2:c0:fa:d1:93:a5:b2:ac:b2:
51:82:df:97:ec:e3:fd:14:59:44:7e:5d:ad:cc:77:
f3:aa:f9:8a:0a:d4:90:a0:f2:0d:58:e7:40:24:c7:
a4:05:81:60:29
Exponent: 65537 (0x10001)
Signature Algorithm: sha1WithRSAEncryption
17:d8:78:f4:b9:12:a8:9e:9a:22:5a:68:81:9b:94:1e:d8:a1:
5d:e2:99:06:c8:a4:b5:52:03:94:37:1c:62:c3:72:d1:14:a1:
f5:7c:54:7e:19:3e:5c:c2:f0:f2:30:65:62:f7:25:b5:25:dd:
27:b5:9e:68:a7:50:45:e9:2e:31