[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4644] bug: cert verification always examining entire chain

Viktor Dukhovni openssl-users at dukhovni.org
Tue Aug 9 02:08:37 UTC 2016


On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:45:24AM +0000, William M Edmonds via RT wrote:

> If I specify a CAfile that includes the leaf certificate and/or
> intermediate CA certificates, but not the root certificate, then
> verification fails.

As expected, unless you use the "-partial" flag in the command-line
utilities, or use the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() to set the
X509_V_FLAG_PARTIAL_CHAIN flag when using the API.

This ticket should be closed.

-- 
	Viktor.


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