Re: PKI Hierarchy Question

2015-07-22 Thread Richard Barnes
It seems like part of your question is whether it's necessary for the terminal cert in a chain to have subject==issuer. That is absolutely *not* the case, at least in NSS. Any certificate can be marked as trusted, in which case validation will terminate with that cert successfully (or actively di

PKI Hierarchy Question

2015-07-21 Thread Tom Ritter
Hi all, I have a path validation/hierarchy question - specifically wondering about the path validation problems incurred on various clients. (I realize there's no definite answer besides "test it on all the clients you care about".) Imagine a four-cert hierarchy R -> A -> B -> L (Root, Leaf, an