In article <35E283E3.980F4D2A@algroup.co.uk> you wrote:
> Holger Reif wrote:
>>
>> > Could you elaborate, a bit, on the hash sym-links, please?
>>
>> It's how SSLeay tries to find the issues cert: It takes a hash
>> of the issuer and looks wether there is a file with the hash
>> as name and an extension of .1, .2 and so on (just in case of
>> an unlikely collision or one issuer having more then one cert).
> Actually, it starts with .0, doesn't it?
Yes, SSLeay starts with the extension 0.
(see SSLeay 0.9.0b, file crypto/x509/by_dir.c, line 311)
Ralf S. Engelschall
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