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CYBER - Cyber Security
TS 103 523 MSP
TLMSP
TLMSP curl
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21 years ago
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Daniel Stenberg
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added the CA bundle default path, and mention the risk that the server you
try to talk to may be an imposter
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Peer SSL Certificate Verification
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S
tarting i
n 7.10, libcurl performs peer SSL certificate verification by
S
ince versio
n 7.10, libcurl performs peer SSL certificate verification by
default. This is done by installing a default CA cert bundle on 'make install'
(or similar), that CA bundle package is used by default on operations against
SSL servers.
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@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@ by CAs present in the bundle, you will not notice any changed behavior and you
will seamlessly get a higher security level on your SSL connections since you
can be sure that the remote server really is the one it claims to be.
If the remote server uses a self-signed certificate, or if you don't install
curl's CA cert bundle or if it uses a certificate signed by a CA that isn't
included in the bundle, then you need to do one of the following:
If the remote server uses a self-signed certificate, if you don't install
curl's CA cert bundle, if the server uses a certificate signed by a CA that
isn't included in the bundle or if the remoste host is an imposter
impersonating your favourite site, and you want to transfer files from this
server, do one of the following:
1. Tell libcurl to *not* verify the peer. With libcurl you disable with with
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
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@@ -37,3 +39,8 @@ trouble for some users, since it adds security to a majority of the SSL
connections that previously weren't really secure. It turned out many people
were using previous versions of curl/libcurl without realizing the need for
the CA cert options to get truly secure SSL connections.
The default path of the CA bundle installed with the curl package is:
/usr/local/share/curl/curl-ca-bundle.crt, which can be changed by running
configure with the --with-ca-bundle option pointing out the path of your
choice.
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