Checking CA expiration

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos]

On 10/19/2011 08:30 PM, Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:
> In our code, we add CAs to our credentials using
> gnutls_set_x509_trust_file.  In gnutls 2.x, we then get a list of the
> CAs using gnutls_certificate_get_x509_cas which we then use to verify
> that at least one of the CAs has not yet expired.  We want to do this
> _before_ initiating a session.
> Is this possible in gnutls 3.x?  gnutls_certificate_get_x509_cas has
> gone away, supposedly in favor of gnutls_certificate_get_issuer(), but
> that requires an existing session.

Why not use gnutls_x509_crt_list_import() or 
gnutls_x509_crt_list_import2() and traverse the list of the CAs? The 
access to the the CA list in the credentials structure has been 
restricted to allow for future internal changes.

regards,
Nikos