Jatinder Jindal
Reputation: 63
Self Signed certificate and Root CA Certificate are same?
Root Certificates are Self Signed certificates and are used to sign other certificates.
My question is can we use any self signed SSL certificate to sign other certificates or there is any data that tells that this Self Signed certificate can't be used to sign other certificates ?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1757
Answers (1)
Steffen Ullrich
Reputation: 123270
A self-signed certificate which has the basic constraint for CA set to true can be used as a CA certificate to sign other certificates. Of course, the client still needs to be configured to trust this new root certificate so that the certificates it signed can be successfully validated.
Upvotes: 1
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