Proposal - encrypted cache
by Sebastian Laskawiec
Hey!
A while ago I stumbled upon [1]. The article talks about encrypting data
before they reach the server, so that the server doesn't know how to
decrypt it. This makes the data more secure.
The idea is definitely not new and I have been asked about something
similar several times during local JUGs meetups (in my area there are lots
of payments organizations who might be interested in this).
Of course, this can be easily done inside an app, so that it encrypts the
data and passes a byte array to the Hot Rod Client. I'm just thinking about
making it a bit easier and adding a default encryption/decryption mechanism
to the Hot Rod client.
What do you think? Does it make sense?
Thanks
Sebastian
[1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/920.pdf
7 years, 7 months
Hot Rod secured by default
by Tristan Tarrant
Dear all,
after a mini chat on IRC, I wanted to bring this to everybody's attention.
We should make the Hot Rod endpoint require authentication in the
out-of-the-box configuration.
The proposal is to enable the PLAIN (or, preferably, DIGEST) SASL
mechanism against the ApplicationRealm and require users to run the
add-user script.
This would achieve two goals:
- secure out-of-the-box configuration, which is always a good idea
- access to the "protected" schema and script caches which is prevented
when not on loopback on non-authenticated endpoints.
Tristan
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Tristan Tarrant
Infinispan Lead
JBoss, a division of Red Hat
7 years, 11 months
