[openssl-users] explicitly including other ciphers.

Jakob Bohm jb-openssl at wisemo.com
Fri Dec 4 02:11:28 UTC 2015


Since the network is (as I understand it) physically secure
against wiretapping, how about using plain http with http auth?

Or are you trying to protect against TCP connection hijacks by
other computers/processes on the "secure" network?

On 04/12/2015 00:35, Ron Croonenberg wrote:
> The network is isolated from the outside worl,   BUT  we still need
> authentication because different users are using it.
>
> So what I preferably want is sort of a set up where,
>
> authentication is done the "standard way" and after that just use the
> https connection without the overhead of actually encrypting anything.
> (and the lesss modifications and recompiling the better)
>
> thanks,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 12/03/2015 02:50 PM, Richard Moore wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2 December 2015 at 17:53, Ron Croonenberg <ronc at lanl.gov
>> <mailto:ronc at lanl.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>     So the idea is to use an object store on an isolated network and
>>     push and get objects out of it using https.
>>
>>
>> ​If network is fully isolated you could use plain text. Using 'https'
>> and null encryption is basically just pretending to do security.
>>


Enjoy

Jakob
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