Sender: pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:15:41 -0400 From: Paul Gilbert <pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca> CC: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch References: <200006271437.KAA28778 at jessie.research.bell-labs.com> I would like to leverage some other tools from CORBA but I'm not sure if they are available. Does anyone know if CORBA can provide authentication and encryption, and what the implications are for trying to run it through a firewall? (The RPC approach is not very good for these things.) Paul Gilbert
CORBA does specify a security service. This is a specification and one has to find an implementation of it. There are not as may freely available versions of this service as some of the other more common services (e.g. Properties, Trading). But there are commercial implementations, I believe. As for encryption, there is now a free version of an IIOP connection run over an SSL encrypted channel (http://mail.ooc.nf.ca/fssl/) which works with Orbacus, the `primary' ORB used to test the R, S and Omegahat dynamic CORBA facilities. So, basically, the design and infrastructure is there and part of the bigger and standardized picture. D.
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