Hi Katie, Thanks again for your help.
> > How does the client get the root certificate? Is it > automatically sent > > to the client during the handshake or does the client need > to load it from some file? > > You point at it in the context before the handshake. You can either > point at a dir full of digest named ones or a specific root cert file. Strangely I tried the former which did not work. The latter method appears to work fine (it connected and exchanged data anyway). Thanks also for the useful analogies. Best Regards, Mark Williams Tech OP ltd ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]