On Tue, Apr 13, 2010, Chris Bare wrote:

> This command works:
> 
> openssl ocsp -issuer issuer.pem -VAfile trusted_dir/ocsp_signer.pem -url 
> http://ocsp.test.com -cert cert.pem -resp_text
> 
> but this fails:
> openssl ocsp -issuer issuer.pem -CApath trusted_dir -url http://ocsp.test.com 
> -cert cert.pem -resp_text
> 
> with:
> 3077556488:error:27069076:OCSP routines:OCSP_basic_verify:signer certificate 
> not found:ocsp_vfy.c:85:
> 
> since the signer cert is in the trusted dir, shouldn't the second version be
> able to find it there?
> 
> ocsp_signer.pem is a self-signed cert, does that matter?
> 
> I ran strace on the second command and I never see it even open the
> directory.

Additional candidate signer certificates  need to be included in the
-verify_other option.

If the OCSP signing certificate is self signed then it needs to be explicitly
trusted which is the -VAfile option if you use that it will also be searched
as a signer.

Steve.
--
Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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