[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | pkcs11: respect Mozilla's time-based distrust upon issuer lookup (!1725)

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Daiki Ueno commented on a discussion on lib/x509/verify.c: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/merge_requests/1725#note_1313385806

>  		if (gnutls_x509_crt_check_issuer
>  		    (certificate_list[clist_size - 1],
>  		     certificate_list[clist_size - 1]) != 0) {
>  			clist_size--;

I can think of a couple of cases: either the chain consists of a self-signed CA and EE certs, or only a self-signed CA. In either case, the CA cert must be in the trust store, for the chain to be successfully verified, so the former wouldn't be a problem. The latter is more interesting: if the CA is assigned distrust-after before its activation time, it will still be trusted, but I would consider it as an inconsistency in the trust store management, that should be resolved by some other means.

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