securing TLS - handeling certificate

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Hi Nir,

Agree with item #1. However, regarding item #2 especially this part:
"there is no way to add personal root CA",  iirc, I have done it
before. Please check
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/symbian_cert_import.html.

BR,
nanang


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:09 AM, nir elkayam <nir.elkayam at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> when using TLS over symbian has few drawbacks as oppose to openssl in 2
> features:
> 1. client certificate does not supported in symbian.
> 2. server certificate validate with public root CA preinstalled on the phone
> and there is no way to add personal root CA.
> the later may be problematic because it make me go throw the validation
> process of verisign for example where as i might want to generate my own
> root certificate and sign the certificate with my own root CA,
> this will make it more accesible and easy to handle.
>
> the quastion/suggestion is, from the CSecureSocket we can retrive the server
> certificate with CX509Certificate *ServerCert(); API in CSecureSocket.
> benny, maybe we can add a callback to give this certificate back,
> and this is for someone how familier with X509,
> can we use this certificate and give our own root certificate and use these
> to validate the server certificate with our own root certificate?
>
> with this there will still be displayed the anoying dialog about the
> untrusted certificate but the security will get higher on the intresting
> cases.
>
> nir
>
>
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