On Wed, Oct 25, 2006, Goetz Babin-Ebell wrote:

> 
> It is always possible to have more than one certificate with the
> same subject name.
> 
> Only the combination issuer name / serial number must be unique.
> (Last time I checked OpenSSL has problems with more than one CA
>  certificate with the subject name...)
> 

Depends. If SKID/AKID is used to disambiguate that case OpenSSL should handle
it properly. If not it will just use the first certificate it encounters which
may not be the right one.

Steve.
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