Hi,

we are building an enterprise application using Flex. One module of
the application will be accessible on the internet so users can access
some data from the main system, without requiring a login.

This module communicates with a web-service. It is already finished
and working fine, but the client needs to make sure that the
web-service is only accessible to our specific Flash client. Other
clients should not be able to request data from the web-service, since
it might compromise the business behind it.

If there isn't a "perfect" solution, our client is not worried with
the fact that SWF's can be decompiled, so there is a possibility to
have something like a "key" hard-coded on the flash module, and a way
to use encription to respond to a challenge made by the server -
avoiding at least man on the middle attacks, i guess.
Some years ago i have studied a bit of public key infrastructures, but
never applied it on a project.

I am far from being expert on security, but this is really important,
since without a rather reasonable solution a big part of the project
will be useless.

What solutions do you propose? Does Flex have some kind of tools to
solve this problems?

Thanks,

João Saleiro

www.riapt.org
www.webfuel.pt



_______________________________________________
osflash mailing list
[email protected]
http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org

Reply via email to