On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Prabath Siriwardena <[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Amila Suriarachchi <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Paul Fremantle <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> 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!
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>> If we use OAuth we need to have an access token. How to generate this
>> access token and where to store that? If we compare this with mutual SSL
>> there is a standard way to generate the certificates .Company may already
>> have a certificate and we can use jks to store them.
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>>  The problem with the Mutual SSL is once we enable Mutual SSL for a port
>> we can not communicate with that port through a browser. So we may need to
>> use two ports one for browser and other for mutual SSL.
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> You can make mutual SSL optional and validate it at the application level.
> In that case there won't be any issue when access from the browser. This is
> how we mutual for selected services in ESB.
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Can we have a quick meeting with the security team regarding this today?
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