On Tue, Mar 14, 2006, michael Dorrian wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. It makes sense that it does not trust any authority
> by default. I will try to research these functions a little more but it may
> be difficult to find a way to actually check that  it was signed by a
> trusted authority. Anyway i appreciate the help.
> 

If I understand your query can do this quite simply using
SSL_CTX_get_cert_store() and calling X509_STORE_add_cert() on it for each
trusted CA.

You need to have the CAs in the form of an X509 structure but there are
several documented ways to do that include d2i_X509() and PEM_read_bio_X509().

Steve.
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