On 09/07/11 16:17, Andrea Spadaccini wrote:
Hi,

I noticed that the SPICE server needs, apart from his key and
certificate, also the certificate of the CA that signed its
certificate.

You cannot verify a certificate if you don't have the certificate of the
authority who signed that certificate - which is the CA.

But what is the point of verifying a certificate that resides on the
server itself?

It's not required. spice-server will happily startup and operate just fine without a ca certificate. I think it isn't used at all today. That may change in the future in case spice gains x509 client certificate support simliar to qemu's vnc server, then we'll obviously need ca certificate(s) to verify the clients ...

cheers,
  Gerd

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