On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>
>>
>> * standard openssl functions which set the authority key identifier
>> seem to not allow direct setting of the keyid.  any clues on how to do
>> that?
>>
>
> You create an AUTHORITY_KEYID structure and populate it. Then you can call
> X509_add1_ext_i2d().

 ahh, you're a star.

>> > If you have a certificate issued by the same CA that would make things 
>> > easier
>> > but it would still be a rather hit and miss affair.
>>
>>  i'm looking for it...   :)
>>
>
> The CA certificate would help too, you could use its subject DN directly.

 i believe this is a CA certificate - it's just a non-standard one, so
is preventing access to a publicly accessible published well-known
HTTPS resource.  so yes i've got the subject DN.

> You will at least know when you've got it right: the signatures will match.

 yyep, i figured that bit he he.  i'm almost there.  dates and serial
number are the last two fields.

 l.
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