Right on!
I think it is indeed an issue of partial chain on the loading side.
As a related question, on the loading side, do I need to provide the whole chain to SSL_CTX_use_certificate?
If intermediate CA certificate is installed into default locations like /ets/ssl/certs, and only end certificate is passed to SSL_CTX_use_certificate, will openssl search the default locations to build a complete chain before sending it
to the remote side?
Thanks.
On 21/04/2017 03:37, Lei Kong wrote:
>
> When validating a certificate issued by an intermediate certificate
> authority, I noticed that I need to install both the root and the
> intermediate CA certificate locally (with update-ca-certificates on
> ubuntu 16.04). Verification fails if only root CA cert is installed
> (intermediate is not installed), is this expected behavior? Why do I
> need to install intermediate CA cert locally? Locally installed root
> CA cert is not enough to validate intermediate CA cert?
>
This is only necessary if the other end of the connection
(incorrectly) forgets to include the intermediate in the
certificate bundle sent with the data or protocol exchange.
> Is it possible to make chain validation work with only root CA cert
> installed locally?
>
Yes, if the other end is not misconfigured and you pass the
received certificate bundle to the appropriate validation
related function as a list of untrusted additional certificates,
which the certificate verification code can search for needed
intermediate certificates.
Enjoy
Jakob
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