On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Marc Gaudichet wrote:

> Hello,
>  
> I'm trying to do client authentication and no server authentication.
> When using SSL_VERIFY_PEER on the server, no certificate seems to be
> verified. When using SSL_VERIFY_PEER|SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT, an
> error occurs on the server : 1010 : SSL_R_SSLV3_ALERT_UNEXPECTED_MESSAGE
> : sslv3 alert unexpected message.
>  
> 1) Is it possible to only authenticate the client (and not the server) ?
> 2) If so, what's my trouble ?
>  

If you mean the server doesn't actually have a certificate (anon DH
ciphersuites) but requests one from the client then no: the specs don't allow
this for SSL/TLS.

Steve.
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