Forums Connection Issues Connecting via SSL: trusted issuer/root cert

Hi all,

I'm trying to connect via SSL against a psybnc. This works fine, but until now psybnc used a self-signed certificate and I had to tell mIRC that this is a trustworthy cert. Now I have my own little CA and I gave psybnc a server certificate from my CA. The root certificate is stored in my windows certificate store under "Trusted root certificates". Nevertheless mIRC asks me to validate this server certificate. When I connect via Firefox to my psybnc's port, Firefox tells me that it can completely validate this server certificate.

So my question: Does anyone know where to store trusted root/issuer certificates so that mIRC (libssl/ssleay) accepts the server certs?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Sir Twist

I think you can do this via the mIRC Options -> Connect -> Options -> [SSL...] (button) -> Trusted Authorities File setting, but I haven't tested it.

Hi,

yeah, I tested this before, but I only got the error message:
* SSL error: unable to load trusted authorities

That was my fault, the certificate has to be in base64 format, not DER coded. After exporting the CA certificate in base64, it works fine.

Thanks all!

Regards,
SirTwist

While I'm not too familiar with SSL and the various methods of coding the certificates, it sounds like having mIRC be able to recognize all (or the most used) codings would be a decent suggestion for the Feature Suggestion forum.