On Mon, Nov 28, 2005, Stefan Vatev wrote:

> 
> Hi guys,
> I had to look in-depth the ocsp stuff of openssl and some
> questions arise. Well, in ocsp.c I don't get why after
> trying OCSP_basic_verify(bs, verify_other, store,
> verify_flags) and the result is negative openssl ties to
> verify the signer's certificate again, but without the
> stack of certs (which to be verified) and all flags set to
> zero. I really don't understand this piece of code :(
> 

I have to admit that I wasn't sure why that was there either :-)

Checking through CVS it looks like it is some legacy code from the initial
support for -VAfile which is now handled differently and that isn't needed any
more.

Steve.
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