Bill, The VPN and the ssh tunnels encrypt the traffic between the servers but anybody with enough access can listen on the interface and intercept the traffic. For example "ngrep -d tun0" would revile all the communications over Open VPN. The encryption of the direct communications between the web and the app server would not allow that and as a result brings extra protection.
Having said that I can work on the Java side of the connectors to add optional encryption, but my C is a little bit rusty and it'll be nice if somebody else would be able to help it... Before to jump on it, are you aware of anything already planned or the stuff you mentioned was just "proposed"? Is there any type of initial documentation on what to and how to? Rossen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@tomcat.apache.org Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:45:08 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: AJP encryption "Rossen Raykov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi All, > > Is there anybody interested in encrypting the AJP communication channel? > Is anything like that planned for the next release? > It's on the wishlist for AJP/1.4 (as well as compression). However there hasn't been much developer traction on AJP/1.4 for years. The general consence on [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been to not add it to an AJP/1.3 release, so the answer to your second question is likely: no. The answer to your first question (based on this list) is likely: yes. AJP is designed to work over high-speed, secure, internal networks. In this type of environment, if a black-hat can manage to sniff AJP traffic, you have much bigger problems on your hands ;). However, if you want to submit patches to add encryption, I'm sure that you will find tomcat developers that are interested in reviewing them. As Markus said, there are plenty of ways to encrypt AJP traffic today. Just judging from this list, SSH tunnelling is popular, as well as Markus' suggestion of OpenVPN. > Rossen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
