Trust SSL certificates stored in "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" in C#

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Context:

I'm trying to experiment with ADFS SSO and first connect to Azure AD as required by this tutorial:

http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/10/25/securing-a-web-api-with-adfs-on-ws2012-r2-got-even-easier/

That works.

Then, following this other tutorial, try to get it to connect to ADFS on our Win Server 2012 R2:

http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/10/25/securing-a-web-api-with-adfs-on-ws2012-r2-got-even-easier/

Like they say in the 3rd tutorial : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn660967.aspx

I get SSL certificate error:

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question:

I know I can bypass certificate validation or put special logic in ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback to encode this, but since I'm importing the certificate in my local machine "Trusted Root Certification Authorities":

  1. ...why is my service still complaining about the certificate?

  2. ...is it possible to tell my C# service to accept all certificates in the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" store?

Note: I do implement ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback and it works fine, but since we're going to get a whole bunch of clients sending ADFS certificates to it, I just need to import their certificate into the certificate store to make our service trusted them.

thanks

Yacoub Massad

You should put the root certificate in the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" store (not the certificate itself). If you open the certificate and go to the certificate path, you can view the root certificate.

To explain this further:

Every certificate has an issuer, and that issuer has a certificate.

Typically, the issuer is a certificate authority (CA).

Such certificates (of a CA) can be signed by the CA itself (self-signed) or by another parent CA.

So you have a parent/child relationship here. A root certificate is the certificate of the root issuer, that is, the certificate is a self-signed parent/grandparent.

Authentication Path Tab

In this example, the administrator certificate is signed by the CA. CA certificates are self-signed. In this case, you need to install the CA certificate into the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" store.

In certificate validation, there are other factors that also come into play. For example, a certificate has validity data, after which it will be considered invalid data.

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