I'm not seeing any response, so I'll assume this is either resolved 
or will take some time before I get a response, so I'll stall this 
ticket for now.

[levitte - Sun Oct  6 22:24:50 2002]:

> [[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Oct  6 21:38:18 2002]:
> 
> > Richard Levitte via RT wrote:
> > > OK, I just haven't seen further communication on this, so I've 
no
> > > idea what conclusoins you came to.  It's very possible that 
the 
> CA
> > > certificate didn't match the issuer of the certificate you 
> wanted to
> > > verify.  Do you have the possibility to send me the 
certificates 
> you
> > > were using in your test?
> > 
> > here are the 'openssl x509' dumps, I hope that helps.
> 
> Yup.  So lt me see if I got this right, you're trying to verify 
> mail.zaplinski.de.pem using ca.pem, right?  And both of those 
files 
> only contain one certificate, right (openssl x509 will only dump 
the 
> first certificate found in a .pem file, IIRC)?  In that case, the 
> certificate in ca.pem is insufficient for verification, because it 
> in turn depends on another CA certificate.  Observe the subject 
and 
> the issuer that you show us:
> 
> > ---- ca.pem ----
> [...]
> >          Issuer: C=DE, ST=Hamburg, L=Hamburg, O=zaplinski.de,
> > CN=zaplinski.de root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >          Subject: C=DE, ST=Hamburg, O=zaplinski.de, 
CN=zaplinski.de
> >    root
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> The issuer has the RDN L=Hamburg, the subject doesn't.  The issuer 
> therefore must have another certificate.  So, the chain that can 
be 
> built is mail.zaplinski.de.pem -> ca.pem -> ???, where '???' is an 
> unknown, and as far as I understand, unavailable certificate.  
> Therefore, 'openssl verify' is absolutely correct in saying 
'unable 
> to get local issuer certificate'.
> 
> Unless you have other facts contradicting my guesses, I'm going to 
> consider this case closed and the ticket resolved.


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Richard Levitte
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