Doubt regarding cert-chain validation

2004-11-12 Thread Chandra Sekhar Suram
Hi all, I hava a doubt regarding X509_verify_cert. What I understand from the documentation of "verify" is that we need to pass all the trusted certs and all the un-trusted certs. X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then validates the chain and finally verify the

Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-15 Thread Suram Chandra Sekhar
Hi all, I hava a doubt regarding X509_verify_cert. What I understand from the documentation of "verify" is that we need to pass all the trusted certs and all the un-trusted certs. X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then validates the chain and finally verify th

RE: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-16 Thread David Schwartz
> X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then > validates the chain and finally verify the self-certificate. What I > understand is that this function expects the ROOT CA to be > self-signed and > it MUST be present in the trusted list. Right. > 1. Is it MUS

RE: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-16 Thread Lucenius Jan
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, David Schwartz wrote: > > > X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then > > validates the chain and finally verify the self-certificate. What I > > understand is that this function expects the ROOT CA to be > > self-signed and > > it MUST be pre

Re: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-18 Thread Charles B Cranston
I agree -- a lot of the advanced architectures I'm studying have a "trust root" that is NOT self-signed, instead it is signed by another certificate somewhere else. In a different verification paradigm the certificate in question is NOT in fact a trust point but instead is signed by a chain that l