Mono Frustrations: "The authentication or decryption has failed." - Wed, Jul 1, 2015

Often calling the AuthenticateAsClient method of an SslStream results in the “The authentication or decryption has failed.” error, because Mono cannot verify the certificate. As a last resort, the error can be circumvented by disabling the certificate validation by adding the following line to the code:

ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += (o, certificate, chain, errors) => true;

If you are creating the SslStream in a using block, you can do this instead:

using (SslStream s = new SslStream(tcpClient.GetStream(), false, new RemoteCertificateValidationCallback((o, certificate, chain, errors) => true)))
{
    s.AuthenticateAsClient(uri.Host, null, SslProtocols.Tls, false);
    ...
}

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