Re: [dane] Quick question regarding DANE and S/MIME

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Sat, 15 April 2017 17:31 UTC

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> On Apr 15, 2017, at 12:01 PM, Alice Wonder <alice@domblogger.net> wrote:
> 
> When using a 2 x x DANE record for S/MIME - Do I need to then include
> the intermediary (and root?) certificate with the actual user's certificate,
> or is it possible to use something like authorityInfoAccess when generating
> the cert to specify where the intermediary certificate that matches the DANE
> record resides?

The user's signature needs to (and generally will) include all the certificates
up to and including the "2 x x" trust-anchor.  To maximize the chance that this
will happen publish a "2 x x" for an intermediate, rather than a root (self-signed)
CA.

-- 
	Viktor.