From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-11-06T06:02:57+09:00
Subject: Re: XML::RPC encryption

Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On the topic of encryption, has anyone every tried adding an encryption
> layer (if that's the right term) into XML::RPC?  I'm thinking of a
> simple public/private key mechanism using openssl, where the server
> stores a list of public keys - one per authorized IP address.  Clients
> would then pass their key as the first argument to any method call so
> that the server could authenticate them.  Messages passed back and forth
> would be encrypted.
>
> Has anyone done this?
>
> If so, how did it affect performance?  (I haven't actually tried it
> yet).
>
> Is this something that could be optionally integrated into the main
> XML::RPC libs, or is it best left at the application level?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan

Quick addendum: I'm talking about a stand-alone server (in case anyone was
gonna pipe in with Apache, etc).