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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><h1>Transport Authentication</h1><p>At the transport level we will support the following mechanisms for establishing and verifying the identity of the client connecting to the server.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" class="jiveBorder" style="width: 75%; border: 1px solid #000000;"><tbody><tr><th align="center" style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #6690bc;" valign="middle"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>Native (SASL)</strong></span></th><th align="center" style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #6690bc;" valign="middle"><span style="color: #ffffff;"><strong>HTTP</strong></span></th></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>Plain *1 (DONE)<br/></em></td><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">Basic (DONE)</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">Digest_MD5 (DONE)</td><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">Digest (DONE)</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">GSSAPI (WILL BE IN 7.1)</td><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">SPNEGO (WILL BE IN 7.1)</td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>External *1  (</em>WILL BE IN 7.1<em>)<br/></em></td><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;">Client Cert <em>(</em>WILL BE IN 7.1<em>)</em></td></tr><tr><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>AS Security Token *2</em></td><td style="border:1px solid black;border: 1px solid #000000;"><em>AS Security Token *2</em></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>*1 Not supplied by the JDK. We will provide a provider.</p><p>*2 To be considered at a later point to minimise overhead establishing connection to different nodes.</p><h5>Notes</h5><p>The Native connection is using Remoting 3 so will make use of the JDK supplied SASL implementation.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Support for Plain / Basic although should be avoided if Digest_MD5 / Digest can be used will be provided for scenarios where pass through of both username and password to back end user database is required.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>A single transport will be required to support multiple mechanisms e.g. The Native API may need to use External authentication for hosts but Digest_MD5 for connections from administrators.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><h3>Reference</h3><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>SASL and SASL External - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4422/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4422/</a></p><p>SASL Plain - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4616/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4616/</a></p><p>SASL Digest_MD5 - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2831/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2831/</a></p><p>SASL GSSAPI - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4752/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4752/</a></p><p>Java SASL Documentation - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/sasl/sasl-refguide.html">http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/sasl/sasl-refguide.html</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>HTTP Basic and Digest - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2617/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2617/</a></p><p>HTTP SPNEGO - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4559/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4559/</a></p><p>Java Secure Programming and SSO - <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jgss/lab/index.html">http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/jgss/lab/index.html</a></p></div>
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