Thanks. Yes, I understand the traffic will be encrypted. I was looking at the TLS protocol. After the ServerHello, the client is supposed to send the client cert to the server. I wonder what will the client send in this case...
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Francois PIETTE <francois.pie...@skynet.be> wrote: >> I'm playing with SSL socket. It seems that SSL works w/o a >> client certificate (no cert files is specified in SslContext.) >> In this case, what will the client send to the server? > > Yes, certificates are an optional feature of SSL. > Certificates are used mainly for authentication of both parties. > Not having a certificate doesn't mean no string cryptography ! > > -- > francois.pie...@overbyte.be > The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare > The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) > http://www.overbyte.be > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be > -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
