PetscErrorCode PetscSSLInitializeContext(SSL_CTX **octx)
| octx | - the SSL_CTX to be passed to PetscHTTPSConnect |
If PETSc was ./configure -with-ssl-certificate requires the user have created a self-signed certificate with
saws/CA.pl -newcert (using the passphrase of password)
cat newkey.pem newcert.pem > sslclient.pem
and put the resulting file in either the current directory (with the application) or in the home directory. This seems kind of silly but it was all I could figure out.