[AWS] SSL client certificate

Pascal Obry p.obry@wanadoo.fr
Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:47:47 +0100


Arnaud,

 > Is there a way to access and check the client certificate on a SSL
 > connection with AWS ? The goal is to secure SOAP services, by filtering and
 > identifying clients on a signed certificate. (i already have a certificate
 > authority (CA), with its own self-signed certificate, and clients
 > certificates signed by the CA, it works well).

No, this is not currently possible.

 > If it's not possible on the AWS side, i'll look at a kind of external SSL
 > port forwarder (but this is less interesting, since in
 > this case, it's no longer possible to automatically identify a client)

Or bind the needed routines from OpenSSL and give the proper API on AWS to
deal with certificates.

Pascal.

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