@property
    def certificate(self):
        if not hasattr(self, '_certificate'):
            cert_url = self._get_cert_url()
            # Only load certificates from a certain domain?
            # Without some kind of trusted domain check, any old joe could
            # craft a bounce message and sign it using his own certificate
            # and we would happily load and verify it.

            if not cert_url:
                self._certificate = None
                return self._certificate

            try:
                import requests
            except ImportError:
                raise ImproperlyConfigured("requests is required for bounce message verification.")

            try:
                import M2Crypto
            except ImportError:
                raise ImproperlyConfigured("M2Crypto is required for bounce message verification.")

            # We use requests because it verifies the https certificate
            # when retrieving the signing certificate. If https was somehow
            # hijacked then all bets are off.
            response = requests.get(cert_url)
            if response.status_code != 200:
                logger.warning('Could not download certificate from %s: "%s"', cert_url, response.status_code)
                self._certificate = None
                return self._certificate

            # Handle errors loading the certificate.
            # If the certificate is invalid then return
            # false as we couldn't verify the message.
            try:
                self._certificate = M2Crypto.X509.load_cert_string(response.content)
            except M2Crypto.X509.X509Error as e:
                logger.warning('Could not load certificate from %s: "%s"', cert_url, e)
                self._certificate = None

        return self._certificate
Retrieves the certificate used to sign the bounce message.
dataset/ETHPy150Open django-ses/django-ses/django_ses/utils.py/BounceMessageVerifier.certificate