On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 01:52 +0100, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010, Adam Grossman wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > 
> > so close, yet so far....
> > 
> > i fixed it where the client is sending the it's certs over and the
> > handshake is complete.  but i have two problems:
> > 
> > 1.  for different clients, i have different CA certs. so i load them all
> > up when the server starts up using:
> >      SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(ssl_ctx, <CA cert location>,NULL)
> > 
> > and then when it is time for a renegotiation, i call:
> > SSL_set_client_CA_list(...)
> > 
> > with only the CA names that the particular client's certs are for.  but
> > even when the CA certs CN  and the client cert's issuer CN do not match,
> > the handshake completes successfully.  i'm i wrong in assuming that it
> > should fail?  or does openssl on the server side (which i am writing),
> > does not check to make sure the the cert and the CA cert match?
> > 
> > 2.  Given the cert and CA certs, is there a nice and simple call, like
> > SSL_make_sure_certs_match_CA_certs(X509 *cert, STACK_OF(X509_NAME)
> > *ca_stack)?  that would really make my day.
> > 
> > 
> 
> You can check this youself using X509_NAME_cmp() on the issuer name of the
> client certificate. Which you can retrieve using X509_get_issuer_name(cert).
> 
> Steve.

thank you so much, it worked perfect.  

-=- adam grossman

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