Re: "known in advance" public key authentication?

[Graham Murray]

On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 14:33 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>       For my application, I need to establish a secure communication
>       between two peers, and as it seems, TLS is a perfect fit for
>       that.
> 
>       A feature of this application is that the public keys of the
>       peers are effectively “known in advance”, so, while self-signed
>       (unsigned?) X.509 certificates (or some OpenPGP ones) could be
>       employed, there's no practical benefit from CC/WoT verification.
> 
>       Hence, the question is: is there a way to specify the local key
>       pair and the remote public key to GnuTLS “directly”, just prior
>       to connecting the remote?

Would PSK not do what you want?