Re: How to Authenticate a Client

2010-02-11 Thread Dan Zwing
Thank you. That information was exactly what I was looking for. From: Kyle Hamilton To: openssl-users@openssl.org Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 7:26:52 PM Subject: Re: How to Authenticate a Client First, initialize the library and make sure you have the

Re: How to Authenticate a Client

2010-02-10 Thread Kyle Hamilton
First, initialize the library and make sure you have the ability to understand any errors you might encounter during debugging. Call SSL_library_init() and SSL_load_error_strings(). Make sure that you provide a suitably random seed for the random number generator. Call RAND_load_file() on /dev/r

How to Authenticate a Client

2010-02-10 Thread Dan Zwing
Hello - I am writing a client program. I have a x509 certificate and a key pair. The server needs to authenticate the client. What is the sequence of openssl calls I need to make to pass the server my information. I see so many different functions such as SSL_CTX_use_certificate versus SSL