[tor-talk] "Invalid Server Certificate" accessing torproject.org on Chrome/Windows

Greg Greg at alumni.brown.edu
Thu Jan 5 00:59:30 UTC 2012


well, this is certainly beyond my certificate debugging skill level.
Would engaging a Chrome mailing list be helpful?

Thanks for all the info so far,
Greg

2012/1/4 Ondrej Mikle <ondrej.mikle at gmail.com>:
> On 01/04/12 21:30, Pascal wrote:
>>
>> Running www.digicert.com through that tool shows the 2nd intermediate
>> certificate that needs to be included.
>
>
> Their tool is quite good, but not all-powerful. The suggested "2nd
> intermediate certificate" must have subject CN="DigiCert High Assurance EV
> Root CA". That can be either self-signed root certificate or a
> cross-certificate (one cross-cert is issued by GTE CyberTrust and one by
> Entrust). The "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" is trusted by Windows
> (that's why it appears at the top of the chain shown by Chrome).
>
> But it really seems the issue is at the client's side (which is frankly
> rare).
>
> The real point is, why does MS CryptoAPI think that the signature
> www.torproject.org is invalid (openssl and gnutls don't object)? BTW, the
> reason Chrome sees different cert for "DigiCert High Assurance CA-3" than
> the one sent by www.torproject.org is because CryptoAPI engages in "AIA
> chasing" and downloads the intermediate cert from the URL it finds in
> Authority Information Access of torproject.org's cert (but even that chain
> should validate).
>
>
> Ondrej
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