February 12, 2002
Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography
76
Back to chain building
nOK, assume we’re a “relying party application” -- something that received an end-entity certificate and wants to verify it.
nOur task is to build a cert chain from that end-entity cert to one of our trusted roots
nHow do we do that?
nWe start with our EE cert, and using the information contained within we look for possible parent certificates.