Re: certificate verification and Sub CAs

2002-03-29 Thread Harald Koch
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, "Shaw, George" had to walk into mine and say: > > It sounds to me like he does trust the root CA, he just wants to deny access > to certain Sub CAs. Correct. Specifically, "everyone else" :-) > I think you would need to program this into

Re: certificate verification and Sub CAs

2002-03-27 Thread Harald Koch
> This problem arises because of the structure behind the PKI. If your > root CA cannot be trusted, you should also not trust the certificates > issued by its sub-CAs. It's not that I don't trust the Root CA; I don't trust other sub-CAs of the Root CA, A minor but important point. The Root CA mig

Re: certificate verification and Sub CAs

2002-03-27 Thread Lutz Jaenicke
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 03:43:00PM -0500, Harald Koch wrote: > So I'm attempting to verify a certificate with OpenSSL 0.9.7 snapshot > (various versions). I trust my own CA, who's certificate is issued by a > Root (self-signed) CA that I do not wish to trust, because it has also > issued a CA cert