I understand the picture. What I don't understand is the statement "it will
be more convenient". Can you please explain why Mutual SSL is more
convenient than OAuth? It certainly is less convenient for the ops guys who
has to set it up!

Paul


On 28 May 2013 08:42, Ananda Manoj Kumara <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On WSO2 Operation Center use case we need to securely communication
> between OC and Manager nodes (server to server communication) about cluster
> information and other management information. According to the design
> discussions it was suggested to use 'mutual authentication' during
> communications.
>
> Currently Jaggery did not support server to server communication and it
> use OAuth for communication using server credentials. But considering OC
> use-cases we need to maintain states of manager nodes periodically with OC
> and we feel that it will be more convenient to use mutual authentication
> through certs than accessing admin services using current OAuth
> implementation.
>
> Your ideas are welcome about this matter.
>
> Thanks,
> Manoj
>
>
> Best Regards..
>
>
> Manoj Kumara
> Software Engineer
> WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com
>
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