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Subject: [stunnel-users] client certificate authentication
From: "Srilalitha Muralidhara(HCL Capital Market Services)" <srilalitha.m () hcl ! in>
Date: 2006-05-08 11:21:42
Message-ID: 7D9386E4B8FE7F41B26D65E1F91278F101D85155 () DSL-EXCHBE ! DSL ! HCLTECH ! COM
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Hi,

I am new to stunnel. My application listens on 6 socket ports. External
applications either dump data on these socket ports or send requests on
these socket ports to receive data. Thus, my application is a server and
external applications are clients. We got to authenticate these external
applications before accepting the requests/data. So I am planning to use
client certificate authentication of stunnel. In this case, should the
server have a certificate as well? Will the server be authenticated? Is
it necessary for all the external applications to be using the same
certificate?

Thanks,

Sri

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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I am new to stunnel. My application listens on 6 socket ports.
External applications either dump data on these socket ports or send requests on
these socket ports to receive data. Thus, my application is a server and
external applications are clients. We got to authenticate these external applications
before accepting the requests/data. So I am planning to use client certificate \
authentication of stunnel. In this case, should the server have a certificate as \
well? Will the server be authenticated? Is it necessary for all the external \
applications to be using the same certificate?<o:p></o:p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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font-family:Arial'>Sri</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
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