Support certificate validation callback

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
authentication, security

Research direction

Start at the implementation of SSL_CTX_set_verify and trace the current error path for a non-NULL callback. Read the surrounding certificate-validation code and determine what information must populate an X509_STORE_CTX. Done means the callback is supported and nginx client authentication is unlocked; no test or file path is named in the issue.

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Description

enhancement

At the moment if SSL_CTX_set_verify is called with a non-NULL callback, we return an error. Instead, we should implement this. That will mean filling in an X509_STORE_CTX.

This should unlock nginx support for client authentication.

Dominant language
Rust
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
3

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