Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> 
> From: Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> jas> This patch that allows you to override the check for a valid self-signed
> jas> certificate when signing certs using 'x509 -CA'.  I find this useful for
> jas> those times when you edit certs with M-x hexl-mode.
> 
> I'm wondering if OpenSSL shouldn't be changed to accept a store of
> trusted points that aren't necessarely root certificates.  One might
> have the case that one only wants to accept client certificates from
> an intermediate CA and not those coming from the rest of the CA tree
> (or mesh).

Surely you can accept non-self-signed certs in the certification
callback?

Cheers,

Ben.

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