RE: Getting TLS working

"Neil Youngman" <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:50:15 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.libesmtp
Organization Wirefast Limited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The CA list is read from the file $HOME/.authenticate/ca.pem 
> and/or the 
> directory $HOME/.authenticate/ca.  The former is simply the 
> concatenation of CAs' public certificates in PEM format; the 
> latter is 
> the hashed directory format used by OpenSSL.  The openssl 
> utility should 
> be able to create this in the correct format.  Unfortunately openssl 
> documentation is practically non-existent.  To date I've just 
> used the 
> ca.pem file rather than the directory as I've found this 
> simpler to create.

I've had ca.pem there for some time, with the trusted CA certificate in
it, but I guess it doesn't like the trusted certificate for some reason?
Is there some restriction on signing certificates or some other
requirement that I'm missing?

Neil Youngman