According to RFC 2560: All definitive response messages SHALL be digitally signed. The key used to sign the response MUST belong to one of the following:
-- the CA who issued the certificate in question -- a Trusted Responder whose public key is trusted by the requester -- a CA Designated Responder (Authorized Responder) who holds a specially marked certificate issued directly by the CA, indicating that the responder may issue OCSP responses for that CA I am wondering if anyone here could point me in the right direction or even assist with a problem I have having. I have Root CA1(RCA1), and Root Ca2(RCA2). also, I have Intermediate Authority 1(IA1) and Intermediate Authority 2 (IA2). I have an OCSP signing certificate issued from IA1 (ocsp1). I have apache 2.4 configured with trust for rca1, rca2, ia1, ia2 and I am able to use client authentication to login with either client cert 1(cc1), or Clicnet Cert 2(cc2). However, when I enable OCSP it acta differently: SSLVerifyClient on SSLVerifyDepth 4 SSLOCSPEnable on SSLOCSPDefaultResponder http://rsp.domain.com:80/ SSLOCSPOverrideResponder on I am able to successfully validate cc1 and any other client certificates issued from ia1. However, when I try to use cc2, I get the following error: SSL Library Error: error:27069070:OCSP routines:OCSP_basic_verify:root ca not trusted Looking at a post in the past: http://openssl.6102.n7.nabble.com/OCSP-basic-verify-root-ca-not-trusted-td24451.html it seems that the RFC should allow me to explicitly declare a trusted responder certificate for the client machine (in this case the client is the httpd 2.4 server). I would like to know: who currently supports mod_ssl? Does mod_ssl currently support this feature? if not, would anyone be willing to teach me how to modify mod_ssl to support something like: 'SSLOCSPTrusted_responder /etc/pki/tls/certs/trustedresponder.pem' Other applications like openssl and corestreet desktop validation client allow you to explicitly configure a trusted responder cert. eg: openssl ocsp -CAfile rca2-issuer ia2 -cert cc2 -VAfile ocsp1 -url http://rsp.domain.com:80 cc2: good This Update: Jan 14 10:02:14 2014 GMT Next Update: Feb 14 10:02:14 2014 GMT