Re: secure RMI over SSL?

David Brownell - JavaSoft (db@doppio)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:29:41 -0800

Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 15:29:41 -0800
From: db@doppio (David Brownell - JavaSoft)
Message-Id: <199702122329.PAA04304@argon.eng.sun.com>
To: java-security@java, ericm@lne.com
Subject: Re: secure RMI over SSL?

> I'm interested in doing RMI in a secure fashion. From reading
> the JDK1.1 docs it appears that RMI uses java.Socket to communicate.
> Is it possible to slip SSL under there, as in the example where
> SocketImpl is replaced with SSL calls?

Hi Eric,

We've not yet done it, but it should certainly be doable. Early
discussions with the RMI team ensured that their interfaces would
support other kinds of sockets "underneath".

- Dave