The information in this section applies to the following:
This section details the supported certificate validation trust policy for WebSphere MQ for UNIX and Windows systems. The information is organized first by specification standard (PKIX), then by policy topic: certificate, CRL, and path validation.
Some definitions of terms used in this section:
The basic and standard policies are described as separate entities because this reflects the implementation within WebSphere MQ for UNIX and Windows systems. That is, there are two separate validation classes. To validate a certificate to standard (RFC 3280) policy, an implementation first needs to validate with the basic policy and then follow this with standard policy validation.