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,

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