openssl (version 0.5)

cert_verify: x509 certificates

Description

Read, download and verify certificates.

Usage

cert_verify(cert, root = ca_bundle())
download_ssl_cert(host = "localhost", port = 443)
ca_bundle()

Arguments

cert

certficate (or certificate-chain) to be verified. Must be cert or list or path.

root

trusted pubkey or certificate(s) e.g. CA bundle.

host

string: hostname of the server to connect to

port

integer: port to connect to

Examples

# Verify the r-project HTTPS cert
chain <- download_ssl_cert("www.r-project.org", 443)
print(chain)
print(as.list(chain[[1]])$pubkey)
cert_verify(chain, ca_bundle())