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      1 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef NET_CERT_CERT_VERIFIER_H_
      6 #define NET_CERT_CERT_VERIFIER_H_
      7 
      8 #include <string>
      9 
     10 #include "base/basictypes.h"
     11 #include "net/base/completion_callback.h"
     12 #include "net/base/net_export.h"
     13 
     14 namespace net {
     15 
     16 class BoundNetLog;
     17 class CertVerifyResult;
     18 class CRLSet;
     19 class X509Certificate;
     20 
     21 // CertVerifier represents a service for verifying certificates.
     22 //
     23 // CertVerifiers can handle multiple requests at a time. A simpler alternative
     24 // for consumers that only have 1 outstanding request at a time is to create a
     25 // SingleRequestCertVerifier wrapper around CertVerifier (which will
     26 // automatically cancel the single request when it goes out of scope).
     27 class NET_EXPORT CertVerifier {
     28  public:
     29   // Opaque pointer type used to cancel outstanding requests.
     30   typedef void* RequestHandle;
     31 
     32   enum VerifyFlags {
     33     // If set, enables online revocation checking via CRLs and OCSP for the
     34     // certificate chain.
     35     VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED = 1 << 0,
     36 
     37     // If set, and the certificate being verified may be an EV certificate,
     38     // attempt to verify the certificate according to the EV processing
     39     // guidelines. In order to successfully verify a certificate as EV,
     40     // either an online or offline revocation check must be successfully
     41     // completed. To ensure it's possible to complete a revocation check,
     42     // callers should also specify either VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED or
     43     // VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED_EV_ONLY (to enable online checks), and
     44     // VERIFY_CERT_IO_ENABLED (to enable network fetches for online checks).
     45     VERIFY_EV_CERT = 1 << 1,
     46 
     47     // If set, permits NSS to use the network when verifying certificates,
     48     // such as to fetch missing intermediates or to check OCSP or CRLs.
     49     // TODO(rsleevi): http://crbug.com/143300 - Define this flag for all
     50     // verification engines with well-defined semantics, rather than being
     51     // NSS only.
     52     VERIFY_CERT_IO_ENABLED = 1 << 2,
     53 
     54     // If set, enables online revocation checking via CRLs or OCSP when the
     55     // chain is not covered by a fresh CRLSet, but only for certificates which
     56     // may be EV, and only when VERIFY_EV_CERT is also set.
     57     VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED_EV_ONLY = 1 << 3,
     58 
     59     // If set, this is equivalent to VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED, in that it
     60     // enables online revocation checking via CRLs or OCSP, but only
     61     // for certificates issued by non-public trust anchors. Failure to check
     62     // revocation is treated as a hard failure.
     63     // Note: If VERIFY_CERT_IO_ENABLE is not also supplied, certificates
     64     // that chain to local trust anchors will likely fail - for example, due to
     65     // lacking fresh cached revocation issue (Windows) or because OCSP stapling
     66     // can only provide information for the leaf, and not for any
     67     // intermediates.
     68     VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_REQUIRED_LOCAL_ANCHORS = 1 << 4,
     69   };
     70 
     71   // When the verifier is destroyed, all certificate verification requests are
     72   // canceled, and their completion callbacks will not be called.
     73   virtual ~CertVerifier() {}
     74 
     75   // Verifies the given certificate against the given hostname as an SSL server.
     76   // Returns OK if successful or an error code upon failure.
     77   //
     78   // The |*verify_result| structure, including the |verify_result->cert_status|
     79   // bitmask, is always filled out regardless of the return value.  If the
     80   // certificate has multiple errors, the corresponding status flags are set in
     81   // |verify_result->cert_status|, and the error code for the most serious
     82   // error is returned.
     83   //
     84   // |flags| is bitwise OR'd of VerifyFlags.
     85   // If VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED is set in |flags|, certificate revocation
     86   // checking is performed.
     87   //
     88   // If VERIFY_EV_CERT is set in |flags| too, EV certificate verification is
     89   // performed.  If |flags| is VERIFY_EV_CERT (that is,
     90   // VERIFY_REV_CHECKING_ENABLED is not set), EV certificate verification will
     91   // not be performed.
     92   //
     93   // |crl_set| points to an optional CRLSet structure which can be used to
     94   // avoid revocation checks over the network.
     95   //
     96   // |callback| must not be null.  ERR_IO_PENDING is returned if the operation
     97   // could not be completed synchronously, in which case the result code will
     98   // be passed to the callback when available.
     99   //
    100   // |*out_req| will be filled with a handle to the async request.
    101   // This handle is not valid after the request has completed.
    102   //
    103   // TODO(rsleevi): Move CRLSet* out of the CertVerifier signature.
    104   virtual int Verify(X509Certificate* cert,
    105                      const std::string& hostname,
    106                      int flags,
    107                      CRLSet* crl_set,
    108                      CertVerifyResult* verify_result,
    109                      const CompletionCallback& callback,
    110                      RequestHandle* out_req,
    111                      const BoundNetLog& net_log) = 0;
    112 
    113   // Cancels the specified request. |req| is the handle returned by Verify().
    114   // After a request is canceled, its completion callback will not be called.
    115   virtual void CancelRequest(RequestHandle req) = 0;
    116 
    117   // Creates a CertVerifier implementation that verifies certificates using
    118   // the preferred underlying cryptographic libraries.
    119   static CertVerifier* CreateDefault();
    120 };
    121 
    122 }  // namespace net
    123 
    124 #endif  // NET_CERT_CERT_VERIFIER_H_
    125