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Re: Problem with selfsigned cert

From: Janne H <jannehson51_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:25:31 -0800 (PST)

--- On Sat, 2/26/11, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> > I can successfully run:
> >
> > curl -k -E mypem.pem:sekret https://foo.bar:886/test.php
> >
> > but I would like to skip the -k switch.
> >
> > I have done
> > openssl s_client -connect foo.bar:886 |tee logfile
> > and
> > openssl x509 -inform PEM -in logfile -text -out
> certdata
> >
> > shows some reasonable data when I look in the file
> certdata
>
> Right, but you got the server's certificate, that's not the
> CA cert you need
> for verifying that server's certificate.
>
> I don't have any conveniant command lines for that lying
> around...

Ah, but if I have created the CA cert my self then I can just use the file: "my_imaginary_ca_cert.crt"
and that worked!
Great.
I'm no security expert, but are there any security implications in making the CA cert public?

      
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Received on 2011-02-28