but i will explain what i aim to do
i'm trying to open make an application based on openssl ,that can display certificate contents such as microsoft certificate viewer
i tried to open the certificate attached with this mail with the "microsoft tool", and i can open each certificate of the "certificate path" (and that what i meaned by openning issuer certificate),i.e. i openned the issuer certificate and its issuer certificate...
if u have a microsoft operating system u will see what i mean
if someone can explain how this tool (MS) do this or how to do this with openssl
sorry again
and thanx
From: Michiels Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Extracting Issuer Certificate
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:50:35 +0100
No, you don't have the issuer certificate included in your certificate, you
only have the issuer distinguished name.
On Friday 07 February 2003 15:44, openssl utilisateur wrote:
> hi again
> thx for your reply
> what i am asking about is how to extract issuer certificate if it was
> included with the certificate
> thx again
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> From: Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: openssl utilisateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >CC: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: your mail
> >Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:27:22 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > > could someone tell me how to extract the certification path from an
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> >ordinary
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> > > certificate (X509 certificate)
> >
> >The certificate doesn't have a path, it just has the DN of its issuer.
> >You have to calculate the path yourself by getting the cert of
> >the issuer, following up the chain, and so on. (I.e., no path, just the
> >first step. :)
> >
> >It gets very complicated if one CA is certified by two other CA's: this
> >is called cross certification and makes the path analysis much harder.
> > /r$
> >
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mycert2.crt
Description: application/x509-ca-cert
