Thanks for the comments.

So, we are not able to implement this in current version of GWT?

On May 30, 10:13 pm, Mark  Renouf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Re: request signing
>
> At the GWT fireside chat at Google I/O, I asked about the possibility
> of a per-request handler for the new RPCRequestBuilder coming in GWT2.
> They mentioned it had been considered.
>
> With a user method invoked just before the request is sent, you could
> easily implement GWT-RPC signature/authentication transparently and
> protect the integrity of the entire request. MD5, SHA1 and event
> HmacSHA1 work reasonably when ported to translatable Java source. I've
> successfully performed authenticated Amazon S3 requests in this way,
> straight from the browser.
>
> On May 30, 2:21 am, hazy1 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > If you are worried about replay attacks use a random token as part of
> > each response/request pair.
>
> > On May 29, 11:09 pm, Deep Blue <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > Thanks all for the comments / opinions.
> > > I agreed with Daniel and Jason that we shouldn't send any extra info.
> > > to client and protect from server side.
>
> > > However, some of my clients are paranoid about the data is being
> > > exposed to users as clear text and they are able to forge the request
> > > to retrieve data from server.
> > > This is just one step more protection, but should be effective in
> > > prevent normal users from forging the request just by using plugin in
> > > firefox.
>
> > > GWT has already obfuscated the javascript source code when compiling,
> > > this is great.
> > > I was thinking maybe we can take one step further to encrypt the data
> > > (only for sensitive information rpc.)
>
> > > We will protect the data / request from server side, but to let
> > > clients able to rest assure, I am just trying to look out any way we
> > > can implement the encryption in GWT.
> > > I know it sounds ridiculous, but sometimes clients are ridiculuous.
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