http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ocsp.html describes the "openssl ocsp"
command, but openssl-0.9.6g command line doesn't recognize the ocsp
command and I don't see it anywhere in the sources.

Can anyone tell me if ocsp is available and, if so, where?

Thanks,

-Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Stephen Henson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 12:52 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: certificate verification problem]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:10:47AM -0400, Shaheed Bacchus wrote:
> >     you are correct, "issuer" is not self signed (in fact it's
> > the cert that's provided by default with openssl in the
> > apps/demoCA dir).  so how do i tell the verification
> > routine to not walk further down the tree?  ideally i'd
> > like to give it a cert that may or may not be self signed
> > and have it consider that cert to be trusted, therefore
> > when doing the verification if it finds that the client cert
> > chain has been signed at some point by this cert it
> > considers the client cert to be valid.  does this make
> > sense?
> 
> OpenSSL does not support "trusted" certificates that are not self
signed
> root CA certificates. It will always walk down the chain.
> What could be done is to catch the mentioned error condition in the
> callback and declare the certificate to be correct, there.
> 
> It would take some extensions to the certificate verification code 
> to change the behaviour. I don't know how large the interest is
> in such an extension.
> 

That's on my list of things to do. However so are a ridiculously
large number of other things :-(

There are however quite a few complications in adding this kind of
stuff. I did look at it a while ago and IIRC it would require a
fairly fundamental change in how the verify code works, and possibly
the X509_LOOKUP replacement too.

Steve.
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