[stunnel-users] Why does verify=3 require the entire cert chain to be present in cafile?

Wed Oct 26 18:56:11 CEST 2011

On 10/26/2011 05:56 PM, al_9x at yahoo.com wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 3:43 AM, Jochen Bern wrote:
>> So I'd guess that the algorithm you're at odds with is part of OpenSSL,
>> rather than something stunnel can change.
> Trusting a specific server cert is a viable validation strategy, I doubt
> openssl makes that impossible.

Unlike with stunnel, I'm able to forgo belief and put OpenSSL to the
test pretty much wherever my laptop happens to be running:

$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect imaps:imaps > Server.crt 2>&1
1 LOGOUT

$  grep -n CERT Server.crt
15:-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
35:-----END CERTIFICATE-----

$ openssl s_client -verify 5 -CAfile Server.crt \
> -connect imaps:imaps 2>&1 | grep Verify
    Verify return code: 21 (unable to verify the first certificate)
1 LOGOUT

$ openssl s_client -verify 5 -CAfile /etc/openvpn/*-ca-cert.pem \
> -connect imaps:imaps 2>&1 | grep Verify
    Verify return code: 0 (ok)
1 LOGOUT

Regards,
								J. Bern
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