> From: openssl-users [mailto:openssl-users-boun...@openssl.org] On Behalf
> Of Salz, Rich
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 09:31
> To: openssl-users@openssl.org
> Subject: Re: [openssl-users] Certification Path Building / non-hierachical PKI
> 
> > Are there any plans or patches for such a feature?
> 
> We have no plans for this.

It should be relatively straightforward to implement a non-hierarchical X.509 
PKI in an OpenSSL-based application using the certificate verification 
callback, though.  The necessary graph algorithms are well-known and I believe 
there are existing open-source implementations (or it could be done in some 
language other than C that's more amenable to graph processing). It's not 
trivial, but between the RFC and a basic understanding of graph processing it's 
pretty clear what needs to be done.

A larger concern is probably the processing time for checking certification 
paths; as the RFC points out, this kind of graph-path processing grows quickly 
with the size of the graph.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Technology Specialist, Micro Focus



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