On Sun, Jan 17, 2010, Josselin Jacquard wrote:

> Thanks for your response.
> Let's say A wants to contact B with SSL.
> A send a ssl request to B, but C instead of B answers, because C and B have
> the same address (maybe there are behind the same NAT).
> C was expecting a call from A, so he accepts the connection.
> 
> What I'm trying to do is that I want C to detects that he wasn't the
> destination, therefore I want to put B name in the SSL connection, but not
> in the cert issuing from A, because I don't want to issue a new cert for
> each destination.
> 
> Is it better explained ?
> 
> What is the application layer flag you are talking about ? I didn't find
> that in ssl doc...
> 

That sounds like the server name indication (SNI) extension which OpenSSL
supports already.

Steve.
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Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer.
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