Re: Why does OpenSSL report google's certificate is "self-signed"?

["Walter H." <Walter.H@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31.03.2021 19:48, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > On Mar 31, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > As far as I can see, neither PKIX (RFC 5280) nor the CA/BF Baseline Requirements say anything about the practice, though I may have missed something. I had a vague memory that some standard or "best practice" guideline somewhere said the server should send the chain up to but not including the root, but I don't know what that might have been.
> Inclusion of the self-signed root is harmless.

do some admins this really?

I have more often the problem, that just the end SSL certificate is sent,
and without the intermediate certificate any validation is impossible;
in such case I download the intermediate just to complete the chain;

> The only case that
> I know of where this is actually necessary is with DANE-TA(2) when
> the TLSA RRset has a hash of the trusted root cert or public key.
this case is history, there doesn't exist any user agent, which has 
implemented this;

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