Re: Authenticating clients and servers

2007-04-16 Thread Goldfish
On Apr 15, 2:40 pm, Chaz Ginger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Krüger wrote: > > Chaz Ginger schrieb: > >> I am writing a distributed server system using Python. I need to support > >> authentication and was wondering what approaches are available under > >> Python and what are the best practi

Re: Authenticating clients and servers

2007-04-15 Thread Chaz Ginger
Thomas Krüger wrote: > Chaz Ginger schrieb: >> I am writing a distributed server system using Python. I need to support >> authentication and was wondering what approaches are available under >> Python and what are the best practices. > > Well, there are many ways of client authentication. To narr

Re: Authenticating clients and servers

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas Krüger
Thomas Krüger schrieb: > Many protocols support an additional SSL/TLS-Layers (e.g. HTTP -> > HTTPS). There you can use SSL certificate authentication. It may > berequired to set up a small CA, but done right it is pretty secure. I missed the best: The Twisted framework has SSL authentication alrea

Re: Authenticating clients and servers

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas Krüger
Chaz Ginger schrieb: > I am writing a distributed server system using Python. I need to support > authentication and was wondering what approaches are available under > Python and what are the best practices. Well, there are many ways of client authentication. To narrow it down it would be nice if