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Re: [Help-gnutls] gnutls with unix domain (local) sockets
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Help-gnutls] gnutls with unix domain (local) sockets |
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Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:35:09 +0200 |
* Lennart Koopmann:
> Am Montag, den 29.09.2008, 16:44 +0300 schrieb Arturo Martinez Rubio:
>> In my specific case, the applications which will communicate using TLS
>> are running in the same machine.
>
> Isn't TLS pretty useless if used for interprocess communication? Or does
> some kind of server that is running on the local machine require TLS?
Some applications use UNIX domain sockets in /tmp, where the identity
of the peer is less than clear. It's been suggested to use TLS in
this scenario.
(Personally, I think using a separate directory, writable by the
appropriate user, is a better choice, perhaps combined with
credentials passing.)
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