Re: OpenSSL handling intermediate certificates

2012-08-08 Thread Justin N. Lindberg
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:33:48 +1000 David Gwynne wrote: > i believe as an ssl client you can add intermediate certs > to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and they'll be used to validate the endpoint. I do believe this would allow me as a client to validate certs signed by the intermediate certs with no problem,

Re: OpenSSL handling intermediate certificates

2012-08-08 Thread David Gwynne
i believe as an ssl client you can add intermediate certs to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and they'll be used to validate the endpoint. if you're an ssl server and your program doesnt let you specify a chain, you can just cat them on the end of the crt. eg, i do something like the following when configuring

OpenSSL handling intermediate certificates

2012-08-07 Thread Justin N. Lindberg
I suppose my question boils down to "How can I validate certificates from SSL servers that fail to send intermediate certificates?" There seem to be quite a few such servers out there, including some I have little choice but to use, and OpenSSL apparently doesn't like to validate a certificate if