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7.5.9 Between what parties does authentication happen when the client and the server communicate over SSL via Visibroker's Gatekeeper?

 

Andreas Vogel
(October, 1998)50 : Only the gatekeeper will be authenticated via an X.509 certificate. A client could be, if the gatekeeper demands so. When using SSL on the backend the server, the gatekeeper is authenticated. Authentication is always on a OA base, not an object base.