On Sat, Jan 15, 2005, Massimiliano Pala wrote:

> Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> [...]
> >Check to see if the CRL has an authority key id and if so if it matches the
> >subject key id of the CA you are using. If not then the problem is that the
> >wong CA and hence wrong public key is being used to verify the CRL 
> >signature.
> 
> You are right, unfortunately I have to deal with a PKI where multiple
> certs are issued to every SubCA -- all of them are valid at the same time,
> and issued to the same Subject, what changes is the Key and the keyUsage...
> a real mess...
> 
> I guess no 'standard' client is capable of verifying correctly the CRLs as
> the certificate used to issue certs is not the same used to sign CRLs...
> aaaarrrgghh!
> 

It's something which may be supported at some stage.

Can you send me the CAs and CRLs involved so I can check them? 

Steve.
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