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Re: How are https messages are being encrypted when no certificates are installed at the client?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel-curl_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 20:37:41 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, T A wrote:

> Does anyone have any insight into how the messages are being encrypted in
> the case where you tell libcurl to *not* verify the peer

The verification or not doesn't affect the encryption at all (AFAIK). If you
want in-depth details on how SSL generically and OpenSSL specifically work,
then I'd assume you're much better off on a openssl-related mailing list (or
even possibly a gnutls-list).

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Received on 2005-08-03