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+This is now a bit dated, quite a few of the SSL_ functions could be
+SSL_CTX_ functions. I will update this in the future. 30 Aug 1996
+
+From eay@orb.mincom.oz.au Mon Dec 11 21:37:08 1995
+Received: by orb.mincom.oz.au id AA00696
+ (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for eay); Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:37:08 +1000
+Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 11:37:08 +1000 (EST)
+From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
+X-Sender: eay@orb
+To: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
+Cc: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
+Subject: Re: PEM_readX509 oesn't seem to be working
+In-Reply-To: <199512110102.RAA12521@infinity.c2.org>
+Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951211112115.28608D-100000@orb>
+Mime-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
+Status: RO
+X-Status:
+
+On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, sameer wrote:
+> OK, that's solved. I've found out that it is saying "no
+> certificate set" in SSL_accept because s->conn == NULL
+> so there is some place I need to initialize s->conn that I am
+> not initializing it.
+
+The full order of things for a server should be.
+
+ctx=SSL_CTX_new();
+
+/* The next line should not really be using ctx->cert but I'll leave it
+ * this way right now... I don't want a X509_ routine to know about an SSL
+ * structure, there should be an SSL_load_verify_locations... hmm, I may
+ * add it tonight.
+ */
+X509_load_verify_locations(ctx->cert,CAfile,CApath);
+
+/* Ok now for each new connection we do the following */
+con=SSL_new(ctx);
+SSL_set_fd(con,s);
+SSL_set_verify(con,verify,verify_callback);
+
+/* set the certificate and private key to use. */
+SSL_use_certificate_ASN1(con,X509_certificate);
+SSL_use_RSAPrivateKey_ASN1(con,RSA_private_key);
+
+SSL_accept(con);
+
+SSL_read(con)/SSL_write(con);
+
+There is a bit more than that but that is basically the structure.
+
+Create a context and specify where to lookup certificates.
+
+foreach connection
+ {
+ create a SSL structure
+ set the certificate and private key
+ do a SSL_accept
+
+ we should now be ok
+ }
+
+eric
+--
+Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating
+AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | more followups than the message contents :-)
+
+