On Sat, Mar 20, 2010, Graham Leggett wrote:

> On 2010/03/20 6:55 PM, Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
>
>> Questions:
>> Is normal that firefox hangs when it doesn't have a valid certificate
>> to provide?
>> Openssl output looks OK?(or the error in the end is a exception?)
>
> I am not 100% sure of the details, but I do recall a hang being a symptom 
> of using a client or a server that did not have the TLS renegotiation bug 
> fixed along with a server or client that did.
>

The only known case is an OpenSSL client without secure renegotiation support
(i.e. earlier than 0.9.8m) attempting to renegotiate with a server which does
support renegotiation. If the server initiates renegotiation you don't get a
a hang.

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