On 15/03/12 13:11, Florian Pritz wrote:
Hi,

When using lynx to access https://portfolio.iguw.tuwien.ac.at I got an
ssl cert validation error. Since it worked fine in firefox/chromium I
tried to use openssl directly and got the following, but I fail to
understand what it means although I see that the chain looks strange
(0->1 i:TERENA is replaced by s:COMODO)

After a bit of googling I believe it's a problem on the server side, but
my knowledge of SSL/X.509 is very limited so if you have any pointers,
I'd be happy to hear them.
>
$ openssl s_client -connect portfolio.iguw.tuwien.ac.at:443
<snip>
Certificate chain
  0 s:/C=AT/ST=Vienna/L=Vienna/O=Vienna University of Technology/OU=E187 
Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology/CN=portfolio.iguw.tuwien.ac.at
    i:/C=NL/O=TERENA/CN=TERENA SSL CA
  1 s:/C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=COMODO CA Limited/CN=COMODO 
High-Assurance Secure Server CA
    i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
CA Root
  2 s:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
CA Root
    i:/C=SE/O=AddTrust AB/OU=AddTrust External TTP Network/CN=AddTrust External 
CA Root

Yes, it's a problem on the server side. Since the server appears to be Apache, the server admin needs to fix it by simply reconfiguring "SSLCertificateChainFile" to point to a file that contains just the following 2 CA Certificates...

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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ihb/MX5UR6g83EMmqZsFt57ANEORMNQywxFa4Q==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEPDCCAySgAwIBAgIQSEus8arH1xND0aJ0NUmXJTANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADBv
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pG1FJseIVqDwavfY5/wnfmcI0L36tsNhAgFlubgvz1o=
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

<snip>

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Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online
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