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authormoparisthebest <admin@moparisthebest.com>2015-06-30 20:23:54 -0400
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2015-07-01 19:43:47 +0200
commit55b78c5ae94852ffb942ff979e6f25aebfeedb16 (patch)
tree73c9f909baac1e3f6bc9c3f09ed5819d4be18653 /docs/curl.1
parentc00b18d5406375627b98b47e68261ace85d1a581 (diff)
downloadcurl-55b78c5ae94852ffb942ff979e6f25aebfeedb16.tar.gz
SSL: Pinned public key hash support
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diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
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@@ -544,9 +544,11 @@ OpenSSL-powered curl to make SSL-connections much more efficiently than using
If this option is set, the default capath value will be ignored, and if it is
used several times, the last one will be used.
-.IP "--pinnedpubkey <pinned public key>"
-(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified public key file to verify the peer. The
-file must contain a single public key in PEM or DER format.
+.IP "--pinnedpubkey <pinned public key (hashes)>"
+(SSL) Tells curl to use the specified public key file (or hashes) to verify the
+peer. This can be a path to a file which contains a single public key in PEM or
+DER format, or any number of base64 encoded sha256 hashes preceded by
+\'sha256//\' and seperated by \';\'
When negotiating a TLS or SSL connection, the server sends a certificate
indicating its identity. A public key is extracted from this certificate and
@@ -554,7 +556,8 @@ if it does not exactly match the public key provided to this option, curl will
abort the connection before sending or receiving any data.
Added in 7.39.0 for OpenSSL, GnuTLS and GSKit. Added in 7.43.0 for NSS and
-wolfSSL/CyaSSL. Other SSL backends not supported.
+wolfSSL/CyaSSL. sha256 support added in 7.44.0 for OpenSSL,
+GnuTLS, NSS and wolfSSL/CyaSSL. Other SSL backends not supported.
If this option is used several times, the last one will be used.
.IP "--cert-status"