https requires certificate support, and that has a variety of related issues (access to the certificate grants essentially the same powers). And then there's the matter of user authentication. Getting that right takes a lot of care and attention.
On the other hand, most of that work has already been done. For example, you could use the TOR software to gate access to a JHS server. Doing this, you would explicitly not be trying to gain anonymity Instead, you would simply be using it to route the traffic through otherwise untrusted servers. (You would still need to make sure that both endpoints are secure, since anyone with access to the endpoints gets full control. But that's something of an issue, regardless of what you have implemented. That said, it would be nice to have a "user identification" mechanism supported by jhs, even if it's only basic authentication. Thanks, -- Raul On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 12:03 PM, John Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been thinking about a few useful additions to the foreign calls of > J. I am sure everyone has their own list of additions but here are mine. > To keep this fun let’s restrain our lists to at most three items. Here are > my top two. > > 1) *Efficient support for HTTPS in JHS.* Post Snowden running without > encryption is just asking for it. Hacking a J engine confers god like > powers on the hacker. Support for HTTPS would make it a lot easier to > deploy JHS solutions in increasingly paranoid corporate environments. > > 2) *High performance compression tuned to J data types.* There a few > addons that make a stab at this but one could achieve much higher > performance if it was an integral 3!:x verb that exploited J’s knowledge of > its internal data types. A good example is compressing Booleans. Knowing > the data is Boolean, rather than byte, allows much faster and more compact > results. > > -- > John D. Baker > [email protected] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
