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List:       ms-cryptoapi
Subject:    Re: Windows Address Book certificates
From:       Erin Lazzaro <ELazzaro () SYMANTEC ! COM>
Date:       1997-08-19 20:53:39
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On Tuesday, August 19, 1997 10:03 AM, David Skyberg <david@FSTS.COM> at Internet
 wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erin Lazzaro <ELazzaro@SYMANTEC.COM>
> > To: CryptoAPI@LISTSERV.MSN.COM <CryptoAPI@LISTSERV.MSN.COM>
> > Date: Friday, August 01, 1997 3:17 PM
> > Subject: Windows Address Book certificates
> >
> > >     I'm playing around with the Windows Address Book that comes with IE4
> > >     (Preview 2).  I downloaded and imported a couple of certificates from
> > >     Verisign (Class 1), and they show as "trusted" but "invalid".  Does
> > >     anyone know how to find out what the problem is?
> > >
> > >     I followed the issuer chain and found that the root self-signed
> > >     certificate was valid but not trusted.  I changed it to "trust
> > >     explicitly" and now that one shows as valid, but not any of the
> > >     others.
> > >
> > >     Thanks,
> > >     Erin Lazzaro
>
> I'm not very knowledgable about IE4.0, but could it be a certificate
> chain issue?  Have you insured that the Verisign Class 1 CA is
> availableto validate with?

That's the "root self-signed certificate" I was referring to.  It is available
(I can display it in Windows Address Book) and it now shows up as valid.  All
the other certificates in the chain still show up as invalid.

Thanks,
Erin Lazzaro

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