Re: [PATCH] Remove useless DH param code on client side

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:00:29AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> > It's not clear why the code was added in the first place,
>
> I thought it was there to support client-side authentication (ie,
> verifying the server's certificate). We don't support that right
> now but we ought to.

That's there AFAICS, using the functions:

SSL_CTX_load_verify_locations(SSL_context, fnbuf, NULL)
SSL_CTX_set_verify(SSL_context, SSL_VERIFY_PEER, verify_cb)

That has nothing to do with DH params though, which are purely used to
generate a secret key during negotiation. The server sends you the DH
params as part of the negotiation, the client doesn't need any itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie-Hellman

Have a nice day,
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