Thomas Krüger wrote: > Chaz Ginger schrieb: >> I am writing a distributed server system using Python. I need to support >> authentication and was wondering what approaches are available under >> Python and what are the best practices. > > Well, there are many ways of client authentication. To narrow it down it > would be nice if your tell us something about the protocol you are > planning to use. > > Many protocols support an additional SSL/TLS-Layers (e.g. HTTP -> > HTTPS). There you can use SSL certificate authentication. It may > berequired to set up a small CA, but done right it is pretty secure. > > Thomas > I am leaning toward using Kerberos via GSS, but I am willing to listen to other ideas. I've played around with TLS but the problem is that updating the .PEM files can be a pain. I was also thinking about X509, and was wondering if anyone has experience with it.
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