New submission from John Nagle: SSL certificate verification fails for "www.verisign.com" when using the cert list from Firefox. Other sites ("google.com", "python.org") verify fine.
This may be related to a known, and fixed, OpenSSL bug. See: http://rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2732&user=guest&pass=guest https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl/+bug/1014640 Some versions of OpenSSL are known to be broken for cases where there multiple valid certificate trees. This happens when one root cert is being phased out in favor of another, and cross-signing is involved. Python ships with its own copy of OpenSSL on Windows. Tests for "www.verisign.com" Win7, x64: Python 2.7.9 with OpenSSL 1.0.1j 15 Oct 2014. FAIL Python 3.4.2 with OpenSSL 1.0.1i 6 Aug 2014. FAIL openssl s_client -OpenSSL 1.0.1h 5 Jun 2014 FAIL Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, x64, using distro's versions of Python: Python 2.7.6 - test won't run, needs create_default_context Python 3.4.0 with OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014. FAIL openssl s_client OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 PASS That's with the same cert file in all cases. The OpenSSL version for Python programs comes from ssl.OPENSSL_VERSION. The Linux situation has me puzzled. On Linux, Python is supposedly using the system version of OpenSSL. The versions match. Why do Python and the OpenSSL command line client disagree? Different options passed to OpenSSL by Python? A simple test program and cert file are attached. Please try this in your environment. ---------- components: Library (Lib) files: ssltest.py messages: 236158 nosy: nagle priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: SSL cert verify fail for "www.verisign.com" versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.4 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file38165/ssltest.py _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23476> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com