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Eddy Nigg  
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 More options Feb 18 2010, 7:43 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto
From: Eddy Nigg <eddy_n...@startcom.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:43:15 +0200
Local: Thurs, Feb 18 2010 7:43 am
Subject: Re: Fix for the TLS renegotiation bug
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On 02/18/2010 02:37 PM, Kai Engert:

> Eddy, describing the solution in more detail:

> - configure secure.startcom.com to never request client auth

> - configure authent.secure.startcom.com to always request client auth

> This avoids having to renegotiate, because the require authentication
> level is set during the initial handshake to the server.

> This requires that you split your content into two separate servers,
> jump to authent.secure.startcom as soon as a user wishes to use a
> cert, and remain at secure.startcom while you don't need the user to
> be authenticated.

OK, now I got it...indeed an interesting approach. Why haven't I thought
about this myself? ;-)

I'll check it out and have some tests going...

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