I searched through the list of certificates that you have sent but could not
find the issuer certificate for client1ica1.test.com.pem.

E:\ssl\install\test\tls\test.com>openssl x509 -issuer -in
client1ica1.test.com.pem -noout
issuer= /C=US/ST=CO/L=Denver/O=CCG/OU=XCP/CN=ica1.test.com

Unless the server has access to a certificate whose subject is
"/C=US/ST=CO/L=Denver/O=CCG/OU=XCP/CN=ica1.test.com", certificate
verification would fail.

depth=0 C = US, ST = CO, L = Denver, O = CCG, OU = XCP, CN =
client1ica1.test.com
verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate

Thanks,
Sandeep

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Mary Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:

> In fact, I just found that openssl s_sever gives same result of untrusted
> client cert - I forgot to specify "Verify" option to require client auth.
>
> It looks like the s_client didn't send the certificate chain from the
> client cert file to server side, and the server cannot build the chain for
> validation.
> However, if I add client's intermediate CA to server's ca file (the root ca
> always there), then it works.
>
> Double check, should the cert chain be sent over by client and server only
> need have the root ca in its ca file? Or server need include the
> intermediate CA in its ca file directly?
>
> And how can I force s_client to send the cert chain to server if it's
> supported?
>
> BTW, my test certs are attached (created using xca), my test cmds are:
>
> openssl s_server -cert tls/example.com/cert.pem -CAfile tls/
> test.com/ca.pem -accept 8888 -Verify 10
> openssl s_client -connect localhost:8888 -msg -showcerts -cert
> client1ica1.test.com.pem
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mary
>
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, sandeep kiran p <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Can you verify the client certificate using "openssl verify" with -CApath
>> and -CAfile similar to what you have used in
>>
>> SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(ctx, (char*)ca_fname, ca_path_ptr)
>>
>> Does it work if you specify only the client cert and not the entire chain
>> when using s_client?
>>
>> /Sandeep
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Mary Zhang <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Ziyu, please see my answers inline.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Mary
>>>
>>> 2011/5/27 Ziyu Liu <[email protected]>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 2011-05-27 13:27:43,"Mary Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Ziyu.
>>>>
>>>> >The certificate is ok.
>>>> >In fact, openssl s_client using same test cert works fine against
>>>> openssl >s_server, and if I put the intermediate CA into my SSL server's ca
>>>> file, it >works as well.
>>>>
>>>> Did you attach the intermediate CA to your client certificate chain
>>>> file?
>>>>
>>>>        [Mary] Yeah, client cert file contains the whole chain.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  >So the issue is that my SSL server is not building the cert chain
>>>> >correctly to validate against the root ca.
>>>> >And I'm not sure whether I missed some call/config to enable the cert
>>>> >chain validation.
>>>>
>>>> There is no specific difference between cert or cert chain.
>>>> What verification depth have you set?
>>>> Have you set the same CN when generating the root CA and intermediate
>>>> CA?
>>>>
>>>>        [Mary] You mean for validation of cert or cert chain, there is no
>>> difference in code: same code should work?
>>>        That's what I expected, but somehow it failed with chain case
>>> only.
>>>
>>>> The verification depth is set to 10 by default (previous other's code),
>>>> I may double check that part.
>>>>
>>>>        The root CA and intermediate CA have different CNs. And I used
>>> xca to create them.
>>>
>>>
>>>> You can test your server with the certifcates in my attachment.
>>>> Structure:
>>>> rootcert.pem signs servercert.pem,a intermediate cert which is in the
>>>> clientchian.pem
>>>> a intermediate cert signs the clientcert.pem.
>>>> [Mary] Will try, but my test certs work fine with OpenSSL s_client and
>>>> s_server, and so don't think the certs have issue.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Mary
>>>>
>>>> 2011/5/26 Ziyu Liu <[email protected]>
>>>>
>>>>> Use the command 'openssl x509 -in serverCA.pem -text -noout' to check
>>>>> if your certificate is generated ok.When you are goting to use the
>>>>> intermediate CA , you must use X509 v3 extension.
>>>>> Check if you have this content:
>>>>> *        X509v3 extensions:
>>>>>             X509v3 Basic Constraints:
>>>>>                 CA:TRUE*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At 2011-05-27 06:53:04,"Mary Zhang" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using OpenSSL for a SSL server and "openssl s_client" to test it
>>>>> with client auth required.
>>>>> Self-sigend root cert is used for creating client certs, and the
>>>>> self-signed root cert is added to SSL server's trusted ca file.
>>>>>
>>>>> It works fine when client cert has no chain, but if the client cert is
>>>>> created by an intermediate ca which is signed by previous root ca, the SSL
>>>>> server failed with unknown ca.
>>>>> From the debug trace, looks like s_client sent the whole chain (the
>>>>> client cert file contains the private key and the whole chain in PEM
>>>>> format).
>>>>>
>>>>> I've thought that OpenSSL will automatically build the chain based on
>>>>> what sent from client, and since the root ca is trusted, and it should 
>>>>> work.
>>>>> Am I wrong? Do I need get the client's cert chain and set to the SSL
>>>>> CTX for validation?
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, here are the functions used:
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_new(SSLv23_method());
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_session_cache_mode(ctx, SSL_SESS_CACHE_BOTH);
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_options(ctx, SSL_OP_ALL | SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(ctx, CIPHER_LIST)
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file(ctx, cert_fname)
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_use_PrivateKey_file(ctx, cert_fname, SSL_FILETYPE_PEM)
>>>>>
>>>>> STACK_OF(X509_NAME) *ca_certs = SSL_load_client_CA_file((char
>>>>> *)ca_fname);
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_client_CA_list(ctx, ca_certs);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(ctx, (char*)ca_fname, ca_path_ptr)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_verify(ctx, SSL_VERIFY_PEER|SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT, 
>>>>> NULL);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> SSL_CTX_set_verify_depth(ctx, _verify_depth);
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Mary
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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