[Spice-devel] Why is the CA certificate needed on the SPICE server?

Andrea Spadaccini spadaccio at google.com
Wed Sep 7 07:17:05 PDT 2011


Hi,

>> I noticed that the SPICE server needs, apart from his key and
>> certificate, also the certificate of the CA that signed its
>> certificate.

> You cannot verify a certificate if you don't have the certificate of the
> authority who signed that certificate - which is the CA.

But what is the point of verifying a certificate that resides on the
server itself?

Thanks,
Andrea


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