Chain of trust

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Fri Nov 16 09:47:18 AEDT 2018


On 11/15/18 7:51 PM, Manoj Ampalam wrote:
> Does OpenSSH support ssh certificate chain with trust anchored at the
> root cert? From what I have read and experimented, it does not look
> so. But looking for a confirmative answer from the experts.
If you're asking about OpenSSH certs then look into:

https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/PROTOCOL.certkeys

It says:

   "Chained" certificates, where the signature key type is a certificate
   type itself are NOT supported.

Ciao, Michael.

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