gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits(3)

gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits3

Api function

Usage

#include <gnutls/gnutls.h>

void gnutls_certificate_set_verify_limits(gnutls_certificate_credentials_t res, unsigned int max_bits, unsigned int max_depth);

Arguments

gnutls_certificate_credentials_t res

is a gnutls_certificate_credentials type

unsigned int max_bits

is the number of bits of an acceptable certificate (default 8200)

unsigned int max_depth

is maximum depth of the verification of a certificate chain (default 5)

Overview

This function will set some upper limits for the default verification function, gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2(), to avoid denial of service attacks. You can set them to zero to disable limits.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 9 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 8
  5. 9
  6. 10
  7. 11
  8. 12
  9. 13
  10. Arch

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
Home page: https://www.gnutls.org

From gnutls 3.8.13-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.