trusted intermediate CAs

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Wed Nov 12 09:29:41 CET 2008


Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:

> i think certtool(1) is problematic in that way, fwiw:
>
>       -e, --verify-chain
>               Verify a PEM encoded certificate chain.  The last certificate in
>               the chain must be a self signed one.

Btw, note that certtool -e does not use the same chain validation
algorithm as the GnuTLS library uses -- I believe certtool -e would have
rejected the faulty gnutls-sa-2008-3 chain.

/Simon





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