Hello OpenSSL users,
1. openssl verify -CAfile <chain containing certificates of intermediate ca 2, intermediate ca 1 and root ca in that order> <leaf certificate>. This verifies ok as expected.
2. openssl verify -CAfile <same ca chain as in 1> <chain containing leaf, intermediate ca 2, intermediate ca 1 and root ca in that order>. This verifies ok as expected.
3. openssl verify -CAfile <root ca> <chain containing leaf, intermediate ca 2, intermediate ca 1 and root ca in that order>. This fails with this error
"error 20 at 0 depth lookup: unable to get local issuer certificate
error leafchain.pem: verification failed"
I understand the reason for this is, the issuer of leaf certificate (intermediate ca 2) is not part of the trusted chain. But, the leaf chain has all the certificates to root ca and root ca is the trusted CA I am verifying against. I thought this would verify ok but, I am clearly wrong. I can pass in the intermediate ca certificates using -untrusted option and it will work. But, I was stumped by 3 and I am curious to know if there is a document or rfc section explaining the behaviour. I have been trying to search for something and I am clearly doing a bad job of it cause I have not been able to find any.
Regards,
Sudarshan
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