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Re: [Syslog] Fingerprint/handshake

Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com> Thu, 29 May 2008 10:44 UTC

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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:12 +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 09:45 +0200, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
> > Inline...
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Joseph Salowey (jsalowey) [mailto:jsalowey@cisco.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:32 AM
> > > To: Rainer Gerhards; syslog@ietf.org
> > > Subject: RE: [Syslog] Fingerprint/handshake
> > > 
> > > Hi Rainer,
> > > 
> > > A TLS alert could be sent by the server indicating the error condition.
> > > Would this help?
> 
> > That's an interesting idea. Let me give it a try. Will provide feedback when I have done this. In any case, if it turns out to be a problem with one library, we may be better of mandating that all verification is done during the handshake...
> 
> By the way, I've read in your implementation report that it is not
> possible to terminate the handshake with OpenSSL either. This is not the
> case, you can do that.

Ah, good to know. So it looks like this is a single-library problem,
about which the standard should obviously not care.

Bazsi, could you do me a favor and let me know which callback you use,
so that I can get to the specifics (also for the GnuTLS folks). I'd
really appreciate that.


Thanks,
Rainer

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