RE: Issues implementing an async certificate validation engine

On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Valerio Di Gregorio (vadigreg) wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I'm doing the cert verfication in the callback and
> the operation is async. The way the async verification is achieved is by
> using ASYNC_pause_job (which internally does a longjmp). Callback won't
> return, because the async job gets paused. Once async validation is done,
> SSL async job can resume. It's the resumed callback that will finally return
> with a validation result.

If the callback won't return until the verification is done (and you have a
validation result), why do it async in the first place? What's the benefit?

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