On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 15:13 -0500, Raymond Dans wrote:
> In dabbling around the new Certificate Authority importing capability, I
> came across what I may believe to be an issue.
> 
> I obtained a certificate for the Google Internet Authority and tried to
> import it into my system so that it could be included as a trusted
> authority.
> 
> The importing of this certificate failed.  Upon closer investigation, I
> noticed that when sipXconfig checks the certificate (using the
> check-cert.sh script), it doesn't provide any parameters as to what to
> check.  The default in the script is to check the certificate for being
> valid as a Client Certficate and Server Certificate rather than just
> checking the Certificate Authority (done using the
> --certificate-authority flag).
> 
> Should the checking of this certificate on import only be for the
> Certificate Authority and does it need to check it for use as an SSL
> Client and/or SSL Server certificate?

It should check to see that it is a certificate authority certificate
(pass --certificate-authority), which deliberately does not check to see
if it is also valid as a client or server cert.


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