On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:28:16AM +0200, Bernhard Froehlich wrote:

> I agree it would be a cool extension to OpenSSL to fetch certificates 
> from an LDAP server, but I would like to be able to use OpenSSL with 
> only that simple file storage also!

This makes sense for finding certs of peers for sending secure messages,
verifying signatures, ... It does not make nearly as much sense for the
trust anchors (I would go further and posit that this is a bad idea).

-- 
        Viktor.
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