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From: Zach Bagnall <yem@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] stunnel blinding patch breaks client usage
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 03:52:47
Message-Id: 20030620155243.03a3a324.yem@y3m.net
1 Hi all.
2
3 The blinding patch on stunnel tries to get the private key in order to
4 determine whether it is an RSA key and therefore RSA blinding is required.
5
6 The problem is that when stunnel is run in client mode, the key/cert is
7 optional. Stunnel dies because it can't access the key.
8
9 The workaround is to create a client key/cert PEM file and tell stunnel to
10 use that file (with the -p option or in stunnel.conf) whenever you use
11 stunnel in client mode.
12
13 More info here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=376333
14
15 What I'd like to know is whether blinding is required on the client side
16 when NOT using an RSA cert for authentication.
17
18 Zach.
19
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