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

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On Mar 31, 2021, at 2:04 PM, Walter H. <Walter.H at mathemainzel.info> wrote:
> 
> On 31.03.2021 19:48, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>>> On Mar 31, 2021, at 1:43 PM, Michael Wojcik <Michael.Wojcik at microfocus.com> 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?

Since it is possible to do, inevitably some will do it.

>> 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;

Well, that's false, just because you're not familiar with it, does not
mean it does not exist.  OpenSSL, Postfix, Exim, Halon MTA, Cisco ESA,
PowerMTA, ... all support DANE, including DANE-TA(2).

Yes, no major browsers as yet supports DANE.  But not all TLS is HTTPS
and not all HTTPS is browsers viewing websites.

-- 
	Viktor.