George,

    The alert is encrypted under the current ciphersuite, as it should be.
It is almost certainly a close_notify alert, which is expected and correct.

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Greg Stark
Ethentica, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "George Lind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: unexpected alert packet after shutdown


> We have built an OPENSSL client.  We seem to get through the
authentication
> level, and we are sending data through SSL.  After sending data through
SSL,
> we execute the following function to close SSL:
> SSL_shutdown(ssl);
>
> The server receives the following alert:
> 15030000 1643BABD A90D53A7 2735C24B C102364B DD2AE585 00E51C
>
> The server expected non-SSL data at this point.  I could not analyze the
> alert because the format was not like I expected.  I throught that alerts
> were in the following format:
> 15 Alert
> 0300 Version
> 0016 Length
> 43 alert Level
> BA alert description
>
> I thought that Alert level would be 01 or 02, and that Alert Description
> would be a documented value?
>
> Has anyone ever seen an alert like this?  If so, how is it decoded?
>
>
> Thanks,
> George
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