rpcssl version 0.1

From: Mark Adams (mdadams_at_mail.com)
Date: 05/07/04 

Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 17:00:27 CST

Announcing release 0.1 of librpcssl, a C library for making RPC (remote
procedure calls) using SSL for security. Thus, SSL provides the encryption and
authentication mechanisms.

See http://rpcssl.sourceforge.net

ONC-RPC or RPC is a open protocol for making service calls across the
network. The RPC protocol provides a lightweight, flexible
architecture for clients/servers communications on the network. The
first implementation was developed by Sun and given away under an
open-source licence. The RPC implementation is freely available on
many operating systems including Linux. Initially RPC provided little
support for strong encryption and authentication, but mechanisms do
exist. GSS-API provides a framework for plugging in many
encryption/security mechanisms.

SSL is an open protocol supporting secure authentication and
encryption of a stream. The OpenSSL library is a widely used open
source implementation of SSL.

Here, you will find a library which allows the Sun RPC library to
operate over an SSL transport. SSL is a very popular transport for
security/authentication, it being the transport which is used for
secure web (HTTPS). The authentication mechanism, which uses X.509
certificates is already in use in many enterprises, and so RPC calls
using the SSL transport have the potential to be extremely useful. 

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