On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:19:23 -0600, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To John, I think I mentioned earlier on that SSL is not what we're looking for >because our goal here is to place a "sentry" on the Flex-Es box's Telnet port >23 and not allow anyone to pass without a valid ID and password. Encrypting >3270 datastreams is what SSL does, from my understanding, which is not >what we're tackling here. In addition, we have tentative circumstances that >prevent us from implementing SSL for the short term. > > Sorry, I missed the part about not wanting to do SSL. Yes, SSL will encrypt the data streams. However, if you are going to have a non-z/OS based "sentry", won't this slow things down? This "sentry" sounds like a proxy server running under Flex-ES, that will prompt the user for their user-id and password, validate it, and then start passing the traffic between the client and server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
