[RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-11 Thread Stipe Tolj
I wonder if there is any interest (or demand) to support SSL connections for the "internal" Kannel TCP connections? Is there anyone using bearerbox on one machine and smsbox/wapbox on an other machine which may be on a completely different network and would like to use SSL connections between the

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Andreas Fink
>I wonder if there is any interest (or demand) to support SSL >connections for the "internal" Kannel TCP connections? > >Is there anyone using bearerbox on one machine and smsbox/wapbox on an >other machine which may be on a completely different network and would >like to use SSL connections betwe

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Stipe Tolj
> I dont think thats really useful. After all it would cost a lot of > CPU power. If someone would need that for some reason he still can > run two instances of Kannel and use the HTTPS interface among them to > communicate. The load of the CPU would be signifantly higher, that's true. But what

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Andreas Fink
> > I dont think thats really useful. After all it would cost a lot of >> CPU power. If someone would need that for some reason he still can >> run two instances of Kannel and use the HTTPS interface among them to >> communicate. > >The load of the CPU would be signifantly higher, that's true.

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Stipe Tolj
> Thats what I mean. Most users run bearerbox and smsbox on the same machine. > If they are separate the its usually on two boxes sitting next to > each other and performance is a key issue in those situations (as > otherwhise you wouldnt use two boxes). So adding SSL to a performance > sensitive

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Andreas Fink
> > Thats what I mean. Most users run bearerbox and smsbox on the same machine. >> If they are separate the its usually on two boxes sitting next to >> each other and performance is a key issue in those situations (as >> otherwhise you wouldnt use two boxes). So adding SSL to a performance >>

Re: [RFC] security between boxes (remote boxing :))

2001-10-12 Thread Stipe Tolj
> Question to the list: who is in real life using this? That's why I enforced the RFC :))) We don't use this currently, but we may. Especially if you want to do license based restrictions to bearerbox (like throughput limits or something similar). > You got a point here. For SMS you can do easi