Hi all,

Just a quick question about the svsd protocol....

Is it true that a certificate and key pair must both be present on the
client and server in order to carry out a connection?

So presumably, when the client wishes to connect to the server, it
encrypts the data with the (private) certificate, the server decrypts
it using the (public) key and then as the correct cert was used to
encrypt the data, the client is authed?

Why do it this way rather than having the client connect using its own
cert-key combo and have the client's public key in the servers list of
keys that are allowed to connect (a la SSHv2 publickey)?  Just
curious.  :)

See ya,

-- 
Ben Kennish
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PS: Sorry about using so much of people's bandwidth recently with my
list posts recently - as you can tell, I have started working
full-time on FreeVSD again! ;)

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