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Ian_Johnson_382
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Apr 04, 2011

Client Certificate authenication for a tcp connection

Hi All,     Is it possible to use Client Certificates to authentication a connection to a non HTTP/HTTPS application.     The ideal solution is that the user would run the client soft...
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Joel_Moses
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Apr 06, 2011
I believe that the Client SSL profile with client certificate authentication works just fine with "stunnel" (http://www.stunnel.com/) type on-demand SSL built to tunnel TCP. It's hard to say without knowing a bit more about the application running over it (both client and server) whether it'll be a good user experience or not -- but it's certainly possible.