* Lennart Koopmann: > Am Montag, den 29.09.2008, 16:44 +0300 schrieb Arturo Martinez Rubio: >> In my specific case, the applications which will communicate using TLS >> are running in the same machine. > > Isn't TLS pretty useless if used for interprocess communication? Or does > some kind of server that is running on the local machine require TLS?
Some applications use UNIX domain sockets in /tmp, where the identity of the peer is less than clear. It's been suggested to use TLS in this scenario. (Personally, I think using a separate directory, writable by the appropriate user, is a better choice, perhaps combined with credentials passing.) -- Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 _______________________________________________ Help-gnutls mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls
