Hi Viktor,

Am 24.02.2015 um 20:57 schrieb Viktor Dukhovni:

>> It's still not clear to me, why in this case there was no authentication
>> performed. With the same configuration, an SMTP connection Gmail is
>> authenticated:
>>
>> Feb 24 20:09:36 bender postfix/smtp[27726]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
>> Trusted TLS connection established to
>> gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.136.26]:25: TLSv1.2 with cipher
>> ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)
>>
>> For me still the question remains, why one connection is authenticated
>> and one not. Is there any criteria that needs to be met?
> 
> This is a Google server that does not support anon-DH ciphersuites.
> 
> It is *not* authenticated.  It has a certificate from *some* trusted
> CA, binding the public key to *some* name, not necessarily related
> to the intended destination.  If it were authenticated the connection
> would be "Verified" not "Trusted".

I see. Thanks a lot for the explanation.



Ihsan

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