On Tue, Aug 15, 2006, Xie Grace Jingru-LJX001 wrote:

>  Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know where in the certificate verification routine that it
> checks the "Common Name" field against the device's interface IP
> address?
> 
> Because the interface ip address may change at run time, it's preferred
> to have the routine check the CN field against some constant value
> instead of the ip.
> 
> If you could point out where the verification code is, I could make a
> change.
> 

OpenSSL doesn't do this check automatically. It is left to an application to
check.

Steve.
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