[PATCH] Add dbus signal for information about server certification

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Tue Jun 21 03:11:25 EDT 2011


On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 23:39 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 12:39 +0800, Michael Chang wrote:
> > In general, this patch attemps to extend commit
> > 00468b4650998144f794762206c695c962c54734 with dbus support.
> > 
> > This can be used by dbus client to implement subject match text
> > entry with preset value probed from server. This preset value, if
> > user accepts it, is remembered and passed to subject_match config
> > for any future authenication.
> 
> How does the 'cert' dict member come out?  It's marked as a STRING type,
> is it a string of hex chars or something else?  If it's a string of hex
> chars, shouldn't the dict member's type be a byte array (ay) instead?

Yeah we have a whole bunch of things like that, or at least I fought a
bunch with p2p -- for some reason people like adding hex to dbus??

johannes



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