curl-library
Re: SSL sample (again)
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:22:58 +0100
Hello Jerry,
Jerry G. Chiuan wrote:
>>Jerry G. Chiuan wrote:
>>
>>That is not good.
>>HTTPS without peer verification is useless.
>>
>>You can turn off client authentication,
>>but you never should turn of peer cert verification.
>
> ya, I agree with this point
> but I forgot to mention that my usage depends on users totally trust the
> peer, and can bypass the peer verification
> e.g. users link to their own company's site
Ahem.
For the user being able to trust the peer,
the user must ensure he is really talking with the peer.
And for that he must do peer verification...
Bye
Goetz
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