Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-20 Thread Sam Jantz
Mohan, It is my understanding that it is the clients job to make sure the certificate is valid, and if it is not, then it will terminate the connection. With openssl, you can set the verify mode with SSL_CTX_set_verify() so the client will ignore certificate errors, but as the server it is your j

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-20 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Ok. I am just trying to understand the rules for refreshing an intermediate certificate or any other certificate that has expired or has been compromised without breaking the SSL connection. Thanks, Mohan On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Sam Jantz wrote: > Mohan, > Unless the certific

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread Sam Jantz
Mohan, Unless the certificate is self-signed there is no way to change the information without having to invalidate it by signing it yourself anyway. You would either have to get a new certificate from the same (or other trusted) CA, and install that one, or (if it is self signed) generate a new

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi John, Yes. We do use SSL certificates. You can consider me a newbie. I am just trying to understand the ways to roll an intermediate or any other certificate that is going to expire soon without causing an outage. Is that possible at all ? (e.g) If a certificate is compromised I

Re: Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread John Doe
From: Mohan Radhakrishnan > Is there any material that shows how to roll to new > certificates using OpenSSL ? I am looking for a test case to > understand how this works. Anyone know about this ? Did you try to google something like "generate certificate openssl" or "openssl certi

Certificate roll

2010-08-19 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, Is there any material that shows how to roll to new certificates using OpenSSL ? I am looking for a test case to understand how this works. Anyone know about this ? Thanks, Mohan __ OpenSSL Project