2010/1/17 Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>

> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010, Josselin Jacquard wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your response.
> > Let's say A wants to contact B with SSL.
> > A send a ssl request to B, but C instead of B answers, because C and B
> have
> > the same address (maybe there are behind the same NAT).
> > C was expecting a call from A, so he accepts the connection.
> >
> > What I'm trying to do is that I want C to detects that he wasn't the
> > destination, therefore I want to put B name in the SSL connection, but
> not
> > in the cert issuing from A, because I don't want to issue a new cert for
> > each destination.
> >
> > Is it better explained ?
> >
> > What is the application layer flag you are talking about ? I didn't find
> > that in ssl doc...
> >
>
> That sounds like the server name indication (SNI) extension which OpenSSL
> supports already.
>

Yep that's it, it will do for my case, because every server and client got
an identification id, I will just have to putt this id into SNI.
I had a kick look, but can you provide me with some info (openssl version
needed and maybe a link to the corresponding api ?)

Thanks in advance

Joss


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