I have asked about this on several forums but never got a straight answer. If the root certificate on a certificate chain has a different fingerprint to the root certificate available for download on the CA's website, does this mean the chain is faked?
The GeoTrust root certs can be viewed here
None of them match the root cert on my chain which is;
GeoTrust Global CA
Identity: GeoTrust Global CA
Verified by
Expires: 08/21/2018
Subject Name
C (Country): US
O (Organization): GeoTrust Inc.
CN (Common Name): GeoTrust Global CA
Issuer Name
C (Country): US
O (Organization): Equifax
OU (Organizational Unit): Equifax Secure Certificate Authority
Issued Certificate
Version: 3
Serial Number: 12 BB E6
Not Valid Before: 2002-05-21
Not Valid After: 2018-08-21
Certificate Fingerprints
SHA1: 73 59 75 5C 6D F9 A0 AB C3 06 0B CE 36 95 64 C8 EC 45 42 A3
MD5: 2E 7D B2 A3 1D 0E 3D A4 B2 5F 49 B9 54 2A 2E 1A
Public Key Info
Key Algorithm: RSA
Key Parameters: 05 00
Key Size: 2048
Key SHA1 Fingerprint: C0 7A 98 68 8D 89 FB AB 05 64 0C 11 7D AA 7D 65 B8 CA CC 4E
Public Key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
Extension
Identifier: 2.5.29.35
Value: 30 16 80 14 48 E6 68 F9 2B D2 B2 95 D7 47 D8 23 20 10 4F 33 98 90 9F D4
Critical: No
Subject Key Identifier
Key Identifier: C0 7A 98 68 8D 89 FB AB 05 64 0C 11 7D AA 7D 65 B8 CA CC 4E
Critical: No
Basic Constraints
Certificate Authority: Yes
Max Path Length: Unlimited
Critical: Yes
Key Usage
Usages: Digital signature
Critical: Yes
Extension
Identifier: 2.5.29.31
Value: 30 31 30 2F A0 2D A0 2B 86 29 68 74 74 70 3A 2F 2F 63 72 6C 2E 67 65 6F 74 72 75 73 74 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 63 72 6C 73 2F 73 65 63 75 72 65 63 61 2E 63 72 6C
Critical: No
Extension
Identifier: 2.5.29.32
Value: 30 45 30 43 06 04 55 1D 20 00 30 3B 30 39 06 08 2B 06 01 05 05 07 02 01 16 2D 68 74 74 70 73 3A 2F 2F 77 77 77 2E 67 65 6F 74 72 75 73 74 2E 63 6F 6D 2F 72 65 73 6F 75 72 63 65 73 2F 72 65 70 6F 73 69 74 6F 72 79
Critical: No
Signature
Signature Algorithm: SHA1 with RSA
Signature Parameters: 05 00
Signature: 76 E1 12 6E 4E 4B 16 12 86 30 06 B2 81 08 CF F0 08 C7 C7 71 7E 66 EE C2 ED D4 3B 1F FF F0 F0 C8 4E D6 43 38 B0 B9 30 7D 18 D0 55 83 A2 6A CB 36 11 9C E8 48 66 A3 6D 7F B8 13 D4 47 FE 8B 5A 5C 73 FC AE D9 1B 32 19 38 AB 97 34 14 AA 96 D2 EB A3 1C 14 08 49 B6 BB E5 91 EF 83 36 EB 1D 56 6F CA DA BC 73 63 90 E4 7F 7B 3E 22 CB 3D 07 ED 5F 38 74 9C E3 03 50 4E A1 AF 98 EE 61 F2 84 3F 12