Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
Chong Peng wrote:
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere
a field in x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
Root certificates are self signed, that is the issuer equals the
subject in the certificate.
AND the signature can be
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere a field in
x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
chong peng
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Chong Peng wrote:
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere a field in
x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
Root certificates are self signed, that is the issuer equals the subject
in the certificate.
Hope it helps,
Ted
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-Original Message-
From: Bernhard Froehlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:10 PM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: a simple ca question
Chong Peng wrote:
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere a field
Chong Peng schrieb:
thanks for the reply. so that can i say that if a certificate is self signed, then it is a root certificate.
I'm not really sure if the definition of a root certificate also assumes
that the CA basic constraint is also set, which would allow the
certificate to be used as
