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7.5.4 Does anybody know a ORB vendor who provides a SSL functionality with their product?

 

Tom Damiano
(May, 1998): Iona Technologies supports SSL in their OTM product.
Rajeev Kumar Gupta
(May, 1998): IONA provides SSL support for Orbix.
William Edwards
(May, 1998): Visibroker has SSL support for both C++ and Java. There's a brief description of this on both the Visibroker for C++ and Visibroker for Java pages at: http://www.inprise.com/visibroker/products/.
Jose Ignacio Gijon
(May, 1998): Mico (http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/) support secure communication and authentication using SSL. Mico use SSLeay (http://www.psy.uq.oz.au/~ftp/Crypto/) to provide the secure socket layer. And both are free.
Marc Laukien
(July, 1998): The ORBacus SSL plug-in provides the necessary tools to develop and deploy secure C++ and Java CORBA applications using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. New applications can be written to take full advantage of SSL, and only a few minor modifications are necessary to enable security in existing ORBacus C++ and Java applications.

The ORBacus Open Communications Interface (OCI) provides the architectural framework that enabled the ORBacus SSL plug-in to be developed without any changes to the ORB core. The ORBacus SSL plug-in replaces the IIOP protocol with the SSLIOP protocol defined as part of the OMG security specification. This protocol is simply IIOP over a secure SSL channel. Applications can be SSL-enabled through the addition of a few simple API calls. The plug-in provides you with full control over the cipher suites used for client/server connection establishment. Furthermore, your applications can use any combination of secure and insecure connections, all under the complete control of the developer.

Other features of ORBacus SSL include:

ORBacus SSL has been tested and is known to work on the following platforms:

The ORBacus SSL 1.0 Preview Release, including all sources, can be downloaded from http://www.ooc.com/ssl/download.html. Should you have any problems compiling the sources, do not hesitate to ask us for assistance. Just send email to support@ooc.com.


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