Re: PureTLS with mutual authentication

Marshall Rose <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:06:08 -0700
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On Jun 04, 2004, at 14:46, Dong Xin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 	I was using PureTLS to achieve mutual authentication.
> The code was modified from beepcore-java's example. The key,
> certificate and trusted certificate are specified on both side.
> After initiation, the startTLS operation executed successfully, and the
> echo channel ran with no problem too. However, when I tried to use
> session.getPeerCredential() (right after startTLS at client side)
> to get the credential on the server side,
> the method return null. The API said getPeerCredential "may return
> null if this session has not been authenticated".
> 	
> 	I wonder how to verify that the TLS session has been
> sucessfully created and the mutual authentication is finished?
> I was trying to print out the subject of the certificate on
> the other side, is it right to use getPeerCredential()?
>
> 	Thanks a lot...
>
> Dong
>
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