Re: certificate chain verify error after receiving new root certificate

2004-11-29 Thread Manfred Faulandt
Steve, Many thanks for the very competent answer. We noticed the UTF8 encoding but thought about it as a "why not?" matter (and we didn't look into a RFC neither). The CA is a Microsoft Shop and Internet Explorer is happy with the certificates they issue. I'll check their site again for somthin

Re: certificate chain verify error after receiving new root certificate

2004-11-29 Thread Manfred Faulandt
Chris, this is the issue... the public key and private key of trust.pem are not the same as the keys for trust_new.pem. They have the same fields in the DN, but do not share the same keys (if they do then this is bad practice by the issuers), so it is a different key that signed the a-sign.pem and

Re: certificate chain verify error after receiving new root certificate

2004-11-29 Thread Manfred Faulandt
Hello Chris, You can not just replace the trust.pem with trust_new.pem as the new root ca cert (trust_new.pem) did not sign the sub ca cert (a-sign.pem) and so the chain is broken. They need to give you a new ca cert and server cert. Thanks for the answer. I must admit that I'm not very familiar

certificate chain verify error after receiving new root certificate

2004-11-29 Thread Manfred Faulandt
Dear group, I have a server certificate signed by a local CA company and the root certificate that signed it expires very soon. The CA company gave us a new root certificate but with the new root certificate OpenSSL is no longer able to successfully verify the server certificate. The working c