The new method SSLContext.get_ca_certs() returns all certificates in the context's trusted X509_STORE. I recently found out that it is possible to put a self-signed certificate into the store and use it successfully with verify_mode CERT_REQUIRED. get_ca_certs() doesn't return the cert although it is used to successfully validate a remote cert.

I propose to modify and rename the function and to add a "check_ca" to the dict that is returned by getpeercert().

Example:

$ openssl s_server -cert Lib/test/ssl_cert.pem -key Lib/test/ssl_key.pem

$ ./python
>>> import ssl
>>> ctx = ssl.SSLContext(ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3)
>>> ctx.verify_mode = ssl.CERT_REQUIRED
>>> ctx.check_hostname = True
>>> ctx.load_verify_locations("Lib/test/ssl_cert.pem")
>>> s = ssl.create_connection(("localhost", 4433))
>>> with ctx.wrap_socket(s, server_hostname="localhost") as ssock:
...     peer = ssock.getpeercert()
... 
>>> peer
{'notAfter': 'Oct  5 23:01:56 2020 GMT', 'version': 3, 'serialNumber': 'D7C7381919AFC24E', 'subjectAltName': (('DNS', 'localhost'),), 'issuer': ((('countryName', 'XY'),), (('localityName', 'Castle Anthrax'),), (('organizationName', 'Python Software Foundation'),), (('commonName', 'localhost'),)), 'subject': ((('countryName', 'XY'),), (('localityName', 'Castle Anthrax'),), (('organizationName', 'Python Software Foundation'),), (('commonName', 'localhost'),)), 'notBefore': 'Oct  8 23:01:56 2010 GMT'}
>>> ctx.get_ca_certs()
[]

> get_ca_certs() doesn't return the cert although it is used to
> successfully validate a remote cert.

Interesting. Is it because of the way you implemented get_ca_certs()?

> I propose to modify and rename the function and to add a "check_ca" to
> the dict that is returned by getpeercert().

Can you explain? What does "check_ca" mean?

> Interesting. Is it because of the way you implemented get_ca_certs()?

Yes, it's the line

  http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/b78de8029606/Modules/_ssl.c#l3103

that skips all certs that are not recognized as CA certs. I wasn't aware
that OpenSSL supports self-signed certs that way.

> Can you explain? What does "check_ca" mean?

The return value of X509_check_ca().

http://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=blob;f=crypto/x509v3/v3_purp.c;h=6c40c7dfc318e4b46fc20d38581ad3656e344b5e;hb=HEAD#l517

BTW, congrats to issue 20,000.