The main reason for this is that when getting a random certificate, the first question is "where did this come from". Often, the only way to know this is by looking at the CA. Once this is in, the rct tool can be enhanced to expose this data.
fixed in master in commit 712a62b80ea4fa703b17d887440cc9ee75ce5f96 Author: Bryan Kearney <bkearney> Date: Fri May 24 17:08:42 2013 -0400 967566: Enhance the ssl bindings to expose the issuer. The main reason for this is that when getting a random certificate, the first question is "where did this come from". Often, the only way to know this is by looking at the CA. Once this is in, the rct tool can be enhanced to expose this data.
Verified in Bug 968364 Comment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968364#c4 Moving to VERIFIED