Hello,

> 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 ? 
Yes, it is.

> (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). 
So you may have one certificate for servers (like you said - server
verification is not important) and certificates for every client.
And on server you should enable client authentication (via SSL).

This is of course one of possible solution.

Best regards,
-- 
Marek Marcola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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