I think Haikal is onto it - HTTPS with client certificates.

Traffic is encrypted with HTTPS & idenitifcation is ensured by the
cetificates at both ends.

If you are talking client (i.e. browser) / server I don't think CF
would really need to be involved at all - the browser and web server
should be able to take care of all that.

Have a look at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_howto.html#accesscontrol
and http://www.garex.net/apache/#CACreation

If you are talking about web services I guess your CF "client" would 
need to know how to pass through cert information, but at the other
end it would still be Apache receiving the request and handling the
HTTPS end of things. CF on the server end might see some extra CGI
variables, but that's about it.


On 4/10/06, Angus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Gavin, I think I follow what you're saying with the port forwarding. Sounds
> like a pretty cool idea but relies on the customer having control over port
> allocations/routing? I don't know whether we could count on that...
> certainly something our enterprise clients could implement for that "feel
> secure" factor :)
>
> Looks like public keys is the way to go. If I am not mistaken the only way
> to get public keys into the CF picture will be to work with Java directly.
> Is this correct?
> We want to really keep things as simple as possible.
>
>  Cheers
> Angus
>
>
>  >
>


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