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4.2.8 What is available in CORBASEC for strong (writer-to-reader) authentication?

 

David Chizmadia
(September, 1998)18 : The CORBA Security Specification (CORBAsec) currently give apps the ability to indicate that they want the ORB to establish a mutually authenticated connection between a client object and a target object.  The strength of the mutual authentication is determined by a policy set by the ORB security administrator and optionally overriden by the application.