Thanks, the problem is I wrote the agents¹ scheduler and all of it¹s other
pieces in RB and wanted to stick with RB on this project if at all possible.
Yes, I can talk to other here if I was doing it in C or C++ and after
looking at the openssl libraries that might be what I'll do.
I guess most of my struggles are with RB and just encrypting the data from
Client to server using SSLSocket as a start. I have not bee successful in
those attempts.
Thanks,
- Charles
On 8/29/08 5:08 PM, "Charles Yeomans" <charles@declareSub.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Charles E. Heizer wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm looking for a little help in trying to figure out the best
>> approach to
>> securing the communications of my application.
>>
>> I have a small agent which has a scheduler in it right now that
>> kicks off
>> jobs as defined. But what I want to do now is add a listener to my
>> client so
>> that I can send commands from a central server.
>>
>> I have played with a few of the client server examples and have
>> started to
>> grasp the whole thing but before I get to far down the road I would
>> like to
>> know how/best way to secure the communication/command from the
>> server to the
>> client to prevent man-in-the-middle etc...
>
> Your question is basically impossible to answer without a more clearly
> defined threat model. I don't mean to be dismissive, but this is a
> tough problem. For example, do you want to protect against rogue
> processes running on the same machine? That's not currently possible
> in REALbasic because of problems with the FolderItem class. Actually,
> it's possible, but not too feasible -- I don't know a way to securely
> create temp files without doing it entirely using C functions.
>
> Encrypted communication is mostly a solved problem, depending on the
> problem.
>
> Surely there are people at llnl.gov that understand this sort of
> thing :)
>
> Charles Yeomans
>
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