Thanks Dave and Kevin, this is indeed very helpful. The plan is at business plan stage now. I was asked "does this WSE Security thing mean it's going to be doable if we go ahead or not?" The management people are discussing all the business and legal aspects of the two sites working together, and if they go ahead, then the two sites are going to have to pass a lot of info back and forth including money and personal information. Their site is much bigger than ours and they use WSE Security.
So we needed to know up front if it's going to be doable or not. The deal they're talking about is far bigger in impact than the technical issue of the web site. If it comes down to it, the IT guys are going to be told "make it happen, dont give me reasons why it cant be done. If you have problems, get around them!" So at this point we needed to know if 'they", a much bigger site than ours will need to be asked to change the way they handle security. Not a good look for this deal. The bottom line, for now, is that it's tricky and messy but doable, I think. When/if the deal proceeds it'll be some late nights and studying I think. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/4/07, Kevin Aebig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I first looked into this and than we decided to simply run authentication > over SSL to protect our services. In our situation, the amount of > development didn't justify the end result. > > We also found that even with the Java upgrade to allow the Encrypt tag more > functionality, we had problems as .NET defaults to UTF-16 whereas CF uses > UTF-8 which can play havoc while passing encoded initialization vectors and > encrypted strings. > > If you end up trying to conquer this, let me know and I'd be happy to work > on this with you. > > Cheers, > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274543 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4