[issue20916] ssl.enum_certificates() will not return all certificates trusted by Windows

Christian Heimes report at bugs.python.org
Thu Mar 13 21:33:50 CET 2014


Christian Heimes added the comment:

Thanks for you tests!

Yes, I was aware of the situation in general. Personally I think it is an unfortunate decision of Microsoft to download root CA certs on demand. When I developed the feature I only experimented with a fresh but fully patched VM of Windows 7 Professional. The VM had more root CAs installed so I didn't think it's going to bite the majority users for common sites. In retrospective I *might* have trigger cert downloads accidentally...

I also tried to implement a OpenSSL's verify hook but my code was far from ready for 3.4 beta. I'll have to implement a proper solution for Python 3.5. The situation on OSX and Windows isn't perfect.

KB931125 lists a way to trigger a full download of all known root certs. Do you still have a fresh VM around? I won't have time to test the tool from KB931125 before 3.4.0 is released.

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assignee:  -> christian.heimes
stage:  -> needs patch
versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.4

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