On Wed, Sep 02, 2009, Yin, Ben 1. (NSN - CN/Cheng Du) wrote:

> OK, regarding the CA deploy, such as, we have a one root ca and 1000 sub ca
> signed by root ca. and each sub ca used as ca by 1000 terminals.so the total
> network size is 1000*1000. All our ca, including root ca and sub ca, was
> stored offline. I need copy sub ca to terminal it was used. So if one of sub
> ca was compromised, what I need to do is sign a new sub ca using root ca and
> copy it to 1000 terminal where sub ca has been compromised. And if root ca
> was compromised, I need to re-deploy CA on 1000*1000 terminal mannuly. That
> is why I want to keep root ca out of the chain.
> 

Including a public key certificate in no way risks the integrity of its
private key as several others have said in this thread.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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