x509 v1 certificate

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Mon Sep 25 16:20:32 CEST 2006


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:08, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) said:

> Because verisign's root certificates are v1 which are widely accepted.

Isn't that the company who once issue a certificate for MICROS0FT.COM :-)

To be fair it doesn't matter which CA issues bogus certificates as in
general all 100 and more root certificates are implicitly
cross-certified.

I consider a per root CA flag to allow relaxing some checks.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner




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