[Help-gnutls] Re: Authentication during Handshake

Rainer Gerhards rgerhards at gmail.com
Wed May 21 13:44:19 CEST 2008


Hi Nikos,

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
<n.mavrogiannopoulos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>
>>> I still would see a lot of benefit in being able to check the remote
>>> peers identity BEFORE the Finished message is sent. That way, I could
>>> block access to not permitted peers at the risk of the DoS outlined
>>> above. Am I still overlooking something?
>>
>> No, I think that is correct.  Nikos, any thoughts?  You added some
>> callbacks during the handshake earlier, are any of those useful here?
>
> No unfortunately not. The callbacks I added are called after client
> hello is received. The callbacks you discuss need to be called after the
> certificate message is received.

Could you point me to the file where processing the certificate
message is done? I would be interested to see if I could add a
callback, and may it even just be to know how it is done ;)

Thanks,
Rainer





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