Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-03-11 Thread Mr.Rout
Hi Johannes Bauer If I have a certificate chain Root - A - B - Leaf where Leaf is the certificate of a webserver (https) and Root is av self-signed certificate. If you donot mind would you please mention what are the Openssl commands you used to create this chain ? Please help me on this.

RE: Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-16 Thread Eisenacher, Patrick
-Original Message- From: Steffen DETTMER * Johannes Bauer wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 14:22 +0100: [...] Or, in other words: Let's assume I have a ultimate root (self-signed) Root and a branched CA X. I would like to trust X and all it's children, but not Root. Is this

Re: Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-16 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012, Eisenacher, Patrick wrote: -Original Message- From: Steffen DETTMER * Johannes Bauer wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 14:22 +0100: [...] Or, in other words: Let's assume I have a ultimate root (self-signed) Root and a branched CA X. I would like to

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-15 Thread Curt Sampson
On 2012-01-13 15:38 +0100 (Fri), Johannes Bauer wrote: Ah, good, then I explained it well enough :-) Do you have a solution for your scenario? Do you manually check certificates? Or is there some workaround? I described my situation in a little more detail in this message:

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 12.01.2012 19:05, Kenneth Goldman wrote: I have a question regarding the verify method of OpenSSL: If I have a certificate chain Root - A - B - Leaf where Leaf is the certificate of a webserver (https) and Root is a self-signed certificate. In this scenario, is it valid for the

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 12.01.2012 19:23, Michael S. Zick wrote: On Thu January 12 2012, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hello group, I have a question regarding the verify method of OpenSSL: If I have a certificate chain Root - A - B - Leaf where Leaf is the certificate of a webserver (https) and Root is a

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 13.01.2012 01:02, Dave Thompson wrote: The verify fails. Why is that? The immediate signature is valid, does the verify command expect to always terminate at a self-signed certificate? Yes. Or rather the libcrypto routine X509_verify_cert, used by the 'verify' utility and also the SSL

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-13 Thread Johannes Bauer
On 13.01.2012 10:15, Curt Sampson wrote: On 2012-01-13 09:54 +0100 (Fri), Johannes Bauer wrote: Let's say I have some ultimate root A which has issued a sub-CA B for me. I use B to create, for example, a certificate for my webserver D. Now I have clients which should only connect to

Re: Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-13 Thread Steffen DETTMER
* Johannes Bauer wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 14:22 +0100: [...] Or, in other words: Let's assume I have a ultimate root (self-signed) Root and a branched CA X. I would like to trust X and all it's children, but not Root. Is this not possible? [yes, it is not possible by default]

Re: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-12 Thread Michael S. Zick
On Thu January 12 2012, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hello group, I have a question regarding the verify method of OpenSSL: If I have a certificate chain Root - A - B - Leaf where Leaf is the certificate of a webserver (https) and Root is a self-signed certificate. In this scenario, is it

RE: Verify intermediate certificate

2012-01-12 Thread Dave Thompson
From: owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org On Behalf Of Michael S. Zick Sent: Thursday, 12 January, 2012 13:24 On Thu January 12 2012, Johannes Bauer wrote: Hello group, I have a question regarding the verify method of OpenSSL: If I have a certificate chain: Root - A - B - Leaf [...] is