On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:20:04AM +0200, Marek Marcola wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > In particular, having a separate certificate for each of the
> > servers (desktop systems) really could be problematic considering
> > the number of them, although having one for each client (print
> > servers) could be feasible.
> If you control all this - this may be acceptable.

No, I control the code on both sides, but not each site which
want to install/use the software. I'd like to impose a minimal
burden on the people who will manage each site.

> > Someone suggested to me that I use stunnel on both sides. Could
> > this be the solution ?
> Yes.

The problem with this is that from what I understand stunnel still 
needs a certificate on the server side, so we are back to having to 
create/purchase/manage possibly thousands of certificates, which is 
entirely impractical, unless running all servers with the same 
certificate is possible. Is it ? (again I don't really care if a 
server really is the server it pretends to be, I only want to be 
sure that the client is the client it pretends to be). 

Any other solution or hint ?

bye

Jerome Alet
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