On 6/22/09, Alejandro Guerrieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Most people uses VPN to protect the traffic while in transit (most carriers > use IPSec). > If you require PKCS12, you could use OpenVPN (or any VPN solution that > supports it) to encrypt the traffic. > > Regards, > > Alejandro > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Christopher Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everybody, >> >> I've trawled to find this information but have failed so far: Can i >> configure Kannel to require that clients connecting need to supply >> PKCS12 (client) Certificates? >> >> I'm a software developer and have been looking at using Kannel for a >> project. >> >> I've been successfully been able to test a simple proof-of-concept. A >> list of what i'm looking at doing, and how successful I've been: >> >> - Setup Kannel (Debian etch, using Nokia N70 as SMSC). (DONE) >> - Using Certificates to _encrypt_ traffic (DONE) >> - Require P12 (Client) Certificates (for Authentication etc.) >> (POSSIBLE??) >> >> So far, I'm thinking that if I can't directly get Kannel to require >> P12 certs, I'll setup some sort of Web Service coupled with Apache >> that handles the Auth/encrypt part of it. >> >> The project that I'm considering will probably end up transporting >> relatively _client_ sensitive data (not necessarily being sent via >> SMS). >> >> Any information/Thoughts would be most appreciated, thanks. >> >> >
Hi Alejandro, Thanks for that. Unfortunately that won't quite work for my application. We are hoping to have an SMS 'module' as part of a larger package, the requirement to have a VPN setup as part of the 'product' won't cut it at this stage. I'll continue to look. Regards,
