RE: How to use the private key password callback?

2000-09-06 Thread Randall Ward
> 'u's meaning is left up to the callback. It could be a prompt phrase a > window handle or ignored. It was added because there was a > need to send > info to the callback. I do nothing with u yet... I'm just hard-coding the passphrase till I can get something to work. > There is an additional

RE: How to use the private key password callback?

2000-09-06 Thread Randall Ward
to. If the operation > fails return 0. > > strcpy( buf, password ); > return strlen( buf ); > > I think size is the length of buf if you want to make overflow checks. > > > -Original Message- > > From: Randall Ward [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >

Please help a little more with client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread Randall Ward
I know know lots and lots about client authentication and certificates. Thanks everyone for your help! Now: there's one big thing that I don't understand. If I am going to be building an https client that will authenticate itself with a certificate of some kind, does that client need to have acce

please help with understanding client authentication

2000-08-09 Thread Randall Ward
I've been building a small https client & everything has gone quite well. Now I've been told that I need to include support for client authentication using a standard x.509 certificate & I am stumped. Is the certificate just going to be a file? Do I just have to set a path to it, or is there some