The verification flags consists of zero or more of the following flags ored together.
X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK enables CRL checking for the certificate chain leaf certificate. An error occurs if a suitable CRL cannot be found.
X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK_ALL enables CRL checking for the entire certificate chain.
X509_V_FLAG_IGNORE_CRITICAL disabled critical extension checking. By default any unhandled critical extensions in certificates or (if checked) CRLs results in a fatal error. If this flag is set unhandled critical extensions are ignored. WARNING setting this option for anything other than debugging purposes can be a security risk. Finer control over which extensions are supported can be performed in the verification callback.
THe X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT flag disables workarounds for some broken certificates and makes the verification strictly apply X509 rules.
X509_V_FLAG_ALLOW_PROXY_CERTS enables proxy certificate verification.
X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK enables certificate policy checking, by default no policy checking is peformed. Additional information is sent to the verification callback relating to policy checking.
X509_V_FLAG_EXPLICIT_POLICY, X509_V_FLAG_INHIBIT_ANY and X509_V_FLAG_INHIBIT_MAP set the require explicit policy, inhibit any policy and inhibit policy mapping flags respectively as defined in RFC3280. Policy checking is automatically enabled if any of these flags are set.
If X509_V_FLAG_NOTIFY_POLICY is set and the policy checking is successful a special status code is set to the verification callback. This permits it to examine the valid policy tree and perform additional checks or simply log it for debugging purposes.
By default some addtional features such as indirect CRLs and CRLs signed by different keys are disabled. If X509_V_FLAG_EXTENDED_CRL_SUPPORT is set they are enabled.
If X509_V_FLAG_USE_DELTAS ise set delta CRLs (if present) are used to determine certificate status. If not set deltas are ignored.
X509_V_FLAG_CHECK_SS_SIGNATURE enables checking of the root CA self signed cerificate signature. By default this check is disabled because it doesn't add any additional security but in some cases applications might want to check the signature anyway. A side effect of not checking the root CA signature is that disabled or unsupported message digests on the root CA are not treated as fatal errors.
The X509_V_FLAG_CB_ISSUER_CHECK flag enables debugging of certificate issuer checks. It is not needed unless you are logging certificate verification. If this flag is set then additional status codes will be sent to the verification callback and it must be prepared to handle such cases without assuming they are hard errors.