On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 21:39 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> The CAfile is for verification, not for sending alon the trust chain
> of a given certificate. 

OpenSSL currently _does_ use the CAfile for sending along the trust
chain of its client certificate. It's buggy, but it tries :)

> DO NOT append your CAfile to your certificate, instead include just
> the leaf cert, then the issuing CAs bottom-up in the right order.

AFAICT that doesn't make any difference -- OpenSSL doesn't use them from
there anyway (unless it's a PKCS#12 file, but the client application has
to handle all that manually anyway).

-- 
dwmw2

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