>  > I dont think thats really useful. After all it would cost a lot of
>>  CPU power. If someone would need that for some reason he still can
>>  run two instances of Kannel and use the HTTPS interface among them to
>>  communicate.
>
>The load of the CPU would be signifantly higher, that's true.
>
>But what about the "interal" connections from bearerbox to
>wapbox/smsbox? They are not HTTP based, AFAIK?!
>
>Stipe


Thats what I mean. Most users run bearerbox and smsbox on the same machine.
If they are separate the its usually on two boxes sitting next to 
each other and performance is a key issue in those situations (as 
otherwhise you wouldnt use two boxes). So adding SSL to a performance 
sensitive environment isnt helping. But in those cases its relatively 
easy to make the network secure by using a separate network between 
bearerbox and smsboxes. The  only case where I think it would be 
helpful is when the bearerbox is far remote from the SMSbox and 
reached over the internet. in that case however you might run 
bearerbox & smsbox in the remote location and run a local bearerbox & 
smsbox and interface with HTTP between the two locations and there 
you can use HTTPS with your patch already.


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