Martin Rex <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem with Client certs for smtpd is that basically you will
> have to violate the TLS protocol to not run into connection failures.
>
> SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 *REQUIRE* the TLS server to send a list
> of (acceptable) certificate_authorities (distinguished names)
> in the CertificateRequest handshake message, and sending an empty
> list is a protocol violation.

Right, but the client does not have to present a certificate in response,
and the server can still let the connection proceed.

Tony.
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