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VERIFY(1)			    OpenSSL			     VERIFY(1)

NAME
       verify - Utility to verify certificates.

SYNOPSIS
       openssl verify [-CApath directory] [-CAfile file] [-trusted_first]
       [-purpose purpose] [-policy arg] [-ignore_critical] [-crl_check]
       [-crl_check_all] [-policy_check] [-explicit_policy] [-inhibit_any]
       [-inhibit_map] [-x509_strict] [-extended_crl] [-use_deltas]
       [-policy_print] [-untrusted file] [-help] [-issuer_checks] [-attime
       timestamp] [-verbose] [-] [certificates]

DESCRIPTION
       The verify command verifies certificate chains.

COMMAND OPTIONS
       -CApath directory
	   A directory of trusted certificates. The certificates should have
	   names of the form: hash.0 or have symbolic links to them of this
	   form ("hash" is the hashed certificate subject name: see the -hash
	   option of the x509 utility). Under Unix the c_rehash script will
	   automatically create symbolic links to a directory of certificates.

       -CAfile file
	   A file of trusted certificates. The file should contain multiple
	   certificates in PEM format concatenated together.

       -untrusted file
	   A file of untrusted certificates. The file should contain multiple
	   certificates in PEM format concatenated together.

       -trusted_first
	   Use certificates in CA file or CA directory before the certificates
	   in the untrusted file when building the trust chain to verify
	   certificates.  This is mainly useful in environments with Bridge CA
	   or Cross-Certified CAs.

       -purpose purpose
	   The intended use for the certificate. If this option is not
	   specified, verify will not consider certificate purpose during
	   chain verification.	Currently accepted uses are sslclient,
	   sslserver, nssslserver, smimesign, smimeencrypt. See the VERIFY
	   OPERATION section for more information.

       -help
	   Print out a usage message.

       -verbose
	   Print extra information about the operations being performed.

       -issuer_checks
	   Print out diagnostics relating to searches for the issuer
	   certificate of the current certificate. This shows why each
	   candidate issuer certificate was rejected. The presence of
	   rejection messages does not itself imply that anything is wrong;
	   during the normal verification process, several rejections may take
	   place.

       -attime timestamp
	   Perform validation checks using the time specified by timestamp and
	   not the current system time. timestamp is the number of seconds
	   since 01.01.1970 (UNIX time).

       -policy arg
	   Enable policy processing and add arg to the user-initial-policy-set
	   (see RFC5280). The policy arg can be an object name an OID in
	   numeric form.  This argument can appear more than once.

       -policy_check
	   Enables certificate policy processing.

       -explicit_policy
	   Set policy variable require-explicit-policy (see RFC5280).

       -inhibit_any
	   Set policy variable inhibit-any-policy (see RFC5280).

       -inhibit_map
	   Set policy variable inhibit-policy-mapping (see RFC5280).

       -policy_print
	   Print out diagnostics related to policy processing.

       -crl_check
	   Checks end entity certificate validity by attempting to look up a
	   valid CRL.  If a valid CRL cannot be found an error occurs.

       -crl_check_all
	   Checks the validity of all certificates in the chain by attempting
	   to look up valid CRLs.

       -ignore_critical
	   Normally if an unhandled critical extension is present which is not
	   supported by OpenSSL the certificate is rejected (as required by
	   RFC5280).  If this option is set critical extensions are ignored.

       -x509_strict
	   For strict X.509 compliance, disable non-compliant workarounds for
	   broken certificates.

       -extended_crl
	   Enable extended CRL features such as indirect CRLs and alternate
	   CRL signing keys.

       -use_deltas
	   Enable support for delta CRLs.

       -check_ss_sig
	   Verify the signature on the self-signed root CA. This is disabled
	   by default because it doesn't add any security.

       -   Indicates the last option. All arguments following this are assumed
	   to be certificate files. This is useful if the first certificate
	   filename begins with a -.

       certificates
	   One or more certificates to verify. If no certificates are given,
	   verify will attempt to read a certificate from standard input.
	   Certificates must be in PEM format.

VERIFY OPERATION
       The verify program uses the same functions as the internal SSL and
       S/MIME verification, therefore this description applies to these verify
       operations too.

       There is one crucial difference between the verify operations performed
       by the verify program: wherever possible an attempt is made to continue
       after an error whereas normally the verify operation would halt on the
       first error. This allows all the problems with a certificate chain to
       be determined.

       The verify operation consists of a number of separate steps.

       Firstly a certificate chain is built up starting from the supplied
       certificate and ending in the root CA. It is an error if the whole
       chain cannot be built up. The chain is built up by looking up the
       issuers certificate of the current certificate. If a certificate is
       found which is its own issuer it is assumed to be the root CA.

       The process of 'looking up the issuers certificate' itself involves a
       number of steps. In versions of OpenSSL before 0.9.5a the first
       certificate whose subject name matched the issuer of the current
       certificate was assumed to be the issuers certificate. In OpenSSL 0.9.6
       and later all certificates whose subject name matches the issuer name
       of the current certificate are subject to further tests. The relevant
       authority key identifier components of the current certificate (if
       present) must match the subject key identifier (if present) and issuer
       and serial number of the candidate issuer, in addition the keyUsage
       extension of the candidate issuer (if present) must permit certificate
       signing.

       The lookup first looks in the list of untrusted certificates and if no
       match is found the remaining lookups are from the trusted certificates.
       The root CA is always looked up in the trusted certificate list: if the
       certificate to verify is a root certificate then an exact match must be
       found in the trusted list.

       The second operation is to check every untrusted certificate's
       extensions for consistency with the supplied purpose. If the -purpose
       option is not included then no checks are done. The supplied or "leaf"
       certificate must have extensions compatible with the supplied purpose
       and all other certificates must also be valid CA certificates. The
       precise extensions required are described in more detail in the
       CERTIFICATE EXTENSIONS section of the x509 utility.

       The third operation is to check the trust settings on the root CA. The
       root CA should be trusted for the supplied purpose. For compatibility
       with previous versions of SSLeay and OpenSSL a certificate with no
       trust settings is considered to be valid for all purposes.

       The final operation is to check the validity of the certificate chain.
       The validity period is checked against the current system time and the
       notBefore and notAfter dates in the certificate. The certificate
       signatures are also checked at this point.

       If all operations complete successfully then certificate is considered
       valid. If any operation fails then the certificate is not valid.

DIAGNOSTICS
       When a verify operation fails the output messages can be somewhat
       cryptic. The general form of the error message is:

	server.pem: /C=AU/ST=Queensland/O=CryptSoft Pty Ltd/CN=Test CA (1024 bit)
	error 24 at 1 depth lookup:invalid CA certificate

       The first line contains the name of the certificate being verified
       followed by the subject name of the certificate. The second line
       contains the error number and the depth. The depth is number of the
       certificate being verified when a problem was detected starting with
       zero for the certificate being verified itself then 1 for the CA that
       signed the certificate and so on. Finally a text version of the error
       number is presented.

       An exhaustive list of the error codes and messages is shown below, this
       also includes the name of the error code as defined in the header file
       x509_vfy.h Some of the error codes are defined but never returned:
       these are described as "unused".

       0 X509_V_OK: ok
	   the operation was successful.

       2 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT: unable to get issuer
       certificate
	   the issuer certificate of a looked up certificate could not be
	   found. This normally means the list of trusted certificates is not
	   complete.

       3 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_CRL: unable to get certificate CRL
	   the CRL of a certificate could not be found.

       4 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_DECRYPT_CERT_SIGNATURE: unable to decrypt
       certificate's signature
	   the certificate signature could not be decrypted. This means that
	   the actual signature value could not be determined rather than it
	   not matching the expected value, this is only meaningful for RSA
	   keys.

       5 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_DECRYPT_CRL_SIGNATURE: unable to decrypt CRL's
       signature
	   the CRL signature could not be decrypted: this means that the
	   actual signature value could not be determined rather than it not
	   matching the expected value. Unused.

       6 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_DECODE_ISSUER_PUBLIC_KEY: unable to decode
       issuer public key
	   the public key in the certificate SubjectPublicKeyInfo could not be
	   read.

       7 X509_V_ERR_CERT_SIGNATURE_FAILURE: certificate signature failure
	   the signature of the certificate is invalid.

       8 X509_V_ERR_CRL_SIGNATURE_FAILURE: CRL signature failure
	   the signature of the certificate is invalid.

       9 X509_V_ERR_CERT_NOT_YET_VALID: certificate is not yet valid
	   the certificate is not yet valid: the notBefore date is after the
	   current time.

       10 X509_V_ERR_CERT_HAS_EXPIRED: certificate has expired
	   the certificate has expired: that is the notAfter date is before
	   the current time.

       11 X509_V_ERR_CRL_NOT_YET_VALID: CRL is not yet valid
	   the CRL is not yet valid.

       12 X509_V_ERR_CRL_HAS_EXPIRED: CRL has expired
	   the CRL has expired.

       13 X509_V_ERR_ERROR_IN_CERT_NOT_BEFORE_FIELD: format error in
       certificate's notBefore field
	   the certificate notBefore field contains an invalid time.

       14 X509_V_ERR_ERROR_IN_CERT_NOT_AFTER_FIELD: format error in
       certificate's notAfter field
	   the certificate notAfter field contains an invalid time.

       15 X509_V_ERR_ERROR_IN_CRL_LAST_UPDATE_FIELD: format error in CRL's
       lastUpdate field
	   the CRL lastUpdate field contains an invalid time.

       16 X509_V_ERR_ERROR_IN_CRL_NEXT_UPDATE_FIELD: format error in CRL's
       nextUpdate field
	   the CRL nextUpdate field contains an invalid time.

       17 X509_V_ERR_OUT_OF_MEM: out of memory
	   an error occurred trying to allocate memory. This should never
	   happen.

       18 X509_V_ERR_DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT: self signed certificate
	   the passed certificate is self signed and the same certificate
	   cannot be found in the list of trusted certificates.

       19 X509_V_ERR_SELF_SIGNED_CERT_IN_CHAIN: self signed certificate in
       certificate chain
	   the certificate chain could be built up using the untrusted
	   certificates but the root could not be found locally.

       20 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY: unable to get local
       issuer certificate
	   the issuer certificate could not be found: this occurs if the
	   issuer certificate of an untrusted certificate cannot be found.

       21 X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE: unable to verify the
       first certificate
	   no signatures could be verified because the chain contains only one
	   certificate and it is not self signed.

       22 X509_V_ERR_CERT_CHAIN_TOO_LONG: certificate chain too long
	   the certificate chain length is greater than the supplied maximum
	   depth. Unused.

       23 X509_V_ERR_CERT_REVOKED: certificate revoked
	   the certificate has been revoked.

       24 X509_V_ERR_INVALID_CA: invalid CA certificate
	   a CA certificate is invalid. Either it is not a CA or its
	   extensions are not consistent with the supplied purpose.

       25 X509_V_ERR_PATH_LENGTH_EXCEEDED: path length constraint exceeded
	   the basicConstraints pathlength parameter has been exceeded.

       26 X509_V_ERR_INVALID_PURPOSE: unsupported certificate purpose
	   the supplied certificate cannot be used for the specified purpose.

       27 X509_V_ERR_CERT_UNTRUSTED: certificate not trusted
	   the root CA is not marked as trusted for the specified purpose.

       28 X509_V_ERR_CERT_REJECTED: certificate rejected
	   the root CA is marked to reject the specified purpose.

       29 X509_V_ERR_SUBJECT_ISSUER_MISMATCH: subject issuer mismatch
	   the current candidate issuer certificate was rejected because its
	   subject name did not match the issuer name of the current
	   certificate. Only displayed when the -issuer_checks option is set.

       30 X509_V_ERR_AKID_SKID_MISMATCH: authority and subject key identifier
       mismatch
	   the current candidate issuer certificate was rejected because its
	   subject key identifier was present and did not match the authority
	   key identifier current certificate. Only displayed when the
	   -issuer_checks option is set.

       31 X509_V_ERR_AKID_ISSUER_SERIAL_MISMATCH: authority and issuer serial
       number mismatch
	   the current candidate issuer certificate was rejected because its
	   issuer name and serial number was present and did not match the
	   authority key identifier of the current certificate. Only displayed
	   when the -issuer_checks option is set.

       32 X509_V_ERR_KEYUSAGE_NO_CERTSIGN:key usage does not include
       certificate signing
	   the current candidate issuer certificate was rejected because its
	   keyUsage extension does not permit certificate signing.

       50 X509_V_ERR_APPLICATION_VERIFICATION: application verification
       failure
	   an application specific error. Unused.

BUGS
       Although the issuer checks are a considerably improvement over the old
       technique they still suffer from limitations in the underlying
       X509_LOOKUP API. One consequence of this is that trusted certificates
       with matching subject name must either appear in a file (as specified
       by the -CAfile option) or a directory (as specified by -CApath. If they
       occur in both then only the certificates in the file will be
       recognised.

       Previous versions of OpenSSL assume certificates with matching subject
       name are identical and mishandled them.

       Previous versions of this documentation swapped the meaning of the
       X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT and 20
       X509_V_ERR_UNABLE_TO_GET_ISSUER_CERT_LOCALLY error codes.

SEE ALSO
       x509(1)

1.0.1e				  2013-11-08			     VERIFY(1)
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