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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Secure Sockets (was: Embedding foreign parts)
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-07-06 9:26:19
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Michael Koch wrote:
> 
> Am Die, 06 Jul 1999 schrieb dsweet@chaos.umd.edu:
> > I saw some talk recently that said it was once possible to use kded to
> > connect to services across the network.  Good...that's CORBA.
> >
> > But, was/is it possible to embed and OpenPart which is being served from
> > another machine?  Is this part of X?
> >
> > I have so much reading to do :)
> 
> Yes, that WAS possible, but itīs not possible anymore because of  security
> problems. We should think about this. Why use CORBA when you can not access
> from another host. Some services need this (or should need this).
> 

The previous implementation used sockets, and those can be accessed
over the network.
Since this gave security problems (as Michael already said) they have
been replaced with a FIFO (/tmp/bla-<pid>, I forgot the bla:)
I must say, I agree with the decision to replace the socket with a FIFO, 
and I agree with the fact that it would be far better to have  sockets. 
However, only if sockets are secure they can be used. So if there's
anyone with knowledge about sockets, there's a project here:)

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In a world without walls and fences,  l.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de
who needs Windows and Gates?          Institute of Plasma physics (IPP)
                                      Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH

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