Partial revert of "Fix client verify mode to check SSL_VERIFY_PEER"
This partially reverts commit c636c1c4 . It also tweaks the documentation and comments in this area. On the client side the documented interface for SSL_CTX_set_verify()/SSL_set_verify() is that setting the flag SSL_VERIFY_PEER causes verfication of the server certificate to take place. Previously what was implemented was that if *any* flag was set then verification would take place. The above commit improved the semantics to be as per the documented interface. However, we have had a report of at least one application where an application was incorrectly using the interface and used *only* SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT on the client side. In OpenSSL prior to the above commit this still caused verification of the server certificate to take place. After this commit the application silently failed to verify the server certificate. Ideally SSL_CTX_set_verify()/SSL_set_verify() could be modified to indicate if invalid flags were being used. However these are void functions! The simplest short term solution is to revert to the previous behaviour which at least means we "fail closed" rather than "fail open". Thanks to Cory Benfield for reporting this issue. Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
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