Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Now I researched and learned (correct me if I'm wrong please) that I
> can't ignore the server certificate if I'm using RSA as the key
> exchanger. I'll have to use DH if I want a "thin" SSL client.

> Another thing: I used "openssl s_client -connect XXX:xx -cipher NNN" against
> an Apache/OpenSSL I installed myself (with the default options). It refuses
> any cipher that has DH in it.

Stronghold has had DH ciphers for quite some time, and now they are
also available in mod_ssl; I think they're not yet supported by
Apache-SSL.

> I don't want my thin client not to be able to connect to the vast majority of
> the https servers out there.

Then you do need RSA; most servers don't have anything else.
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