Re: Security/encryption

2002-03-19 Thread Peter Robins
That's a different issue, Joe. SSL encrypts the flow, and is not specific to Cocoon. I wouldn't expect Cocoon to handle this. I'm wanting to encrypt the passwords (or other sensitive data) in the actual XML files, as, for example, Apache does with its htpasswd files. IMO, all passwords should b

Re: Security/encryption

2002-03-18 Thread Joseph Jupin
I'm going to answer this in terms of an SSL connection from a client to your webserver (Apache or Tomcat, etc)... In the Tomcat documentation it states that when an SSL connection is made, the connection is encrypted from the client to the webserver as in any normal webserver situation. The

Re: Security/encryption

2002-03-17 Thread Peter Robins
On Friday 15 Mar 2002 11:07 pm, Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > > How do you handle plain text DB password in the weblogic's config.xml > file? Or in the JRun server's local.properties file? Or Tomcat's > server.xml? I don't. I don't use weblogic or jrun, nor do I have passwords in server.xml > I guess

RE: Security/encryption

2002-03-15 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
> From: Peter Robins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Altho I can put most of my sensitive data in an RDBMS with proper security, > when I see things like db passwords lying around in non-secure XML files, > which can easily be referenced programmatically, then alarm bells start > ringing. I haven'

Security/encryption

2002-03-15 Thread Peter Robins
Altho I can put most of my sensitive data in an RDBMS with proper security, when I see things like db passwords lying around in non-secure XML files, which can easily be referenced programmatically, then alarm bells start ringing. I haven't found any reference anywhere to encrypting data elemen