From: Justin Meyer <zhengyi@...>
Date: 2006-02-28T01:54:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Authenticating distributed Ruby

Hi Gregory, Trejkaz:

On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 02:03:35PM +0900, Trejkaz wrote:
> [...]
> } The next aspect is some kind of basic authentication.  Really, what I
> } want is just a secret key that the client has to pass in in order to
> } get access to my remote objects.  But, I don't want to have to add that
> } secret key to every method.
> [...]
> 
> You may find the following URLs helpful in understanding and implementing
> this:
> 
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/openssl-client-authentication.php
> http://www.mindreef.com/support/soapscope/4.1/help/sslcerts.html
> http://www.pseudonym.org/ssl/ssl_cook.html
> 
> } TX
> --Greg

For specifically doing DRb over SSL, with client cert-based auth, this
URL might also be useful:

http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/drb/DRbSSL/