Bernhard Froehlich wrote:
Chong Peng wrote:
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere
a field in x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
Root certificates are self signed, that is the issuer equals the
subject in the certificate.
AND the signature can be ve
Chong Peng schrieb:
thanks for the reply. so that can i say that "if a certificate is self signed, then it is a root certificate."
I'm not really sure if the definition of a root certificate also assumes
that the CA basic constraint is also set, which would allow the
certificate to be used as
?
thanks.
chong peng
-Original Message-
From: Bernhard Froehlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 1:10 PM
To: openssl-users@openssl.org
Subject: Re: a simple ca question
Chong Peng wrote:
> guys:
>
> how to tell a root certificate from a non-root cert
Chong Peng wrote:
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere a field in
x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
Root certificates are self signed, that is the issuer equals the subject
in the certificate.
Hope it helps,
Ted
;)
--
PGP Public Key Information
guys:
how to tell a root certificate from a non-root certificate? i sthere a field in
x509 structure for us to tell? thanks.
chong peng
__
OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org
User Support Maili
