Re: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-18 Thread Charles B Cranston
I agree -- a lot of the advanced architectures I'm studying have a trust root that is NOT self-signed, instead it is signed by another certificate somewhere else. In a different verification paradigm the certificate in question is NOT in fact a trust point but instead is signed by a chain that

RE: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-16 Thread David Schwartz
X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then validates the chain and finally verify the self-certificate. What I understand is that this function expects the ROOT CA to be self-signed and it MUST be present in the trusted list. Right. 1. Is it MUST

RE: Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-16 Thread Lucenius Jan
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, David Schwartz wrote: X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then validates the chain and finally verify the self-certificate. What I understand is that this function expects the ROOT CA to be self-signed and it MUST be present in

Doubt regarding cert-chain validation (fwd)

2004-11-15 Thread Suram Chandra Sekhar
Hi all, I hava a doubt regarding X509_verify_cert. What I understand from the documentation of verify is that we need to pass all the trusted certs and all the un-trusted certs. X509_verify_cert will construct the cert chain upto the ROOT CA and then validates the chain and finally verify the