Thank you, that is a definite lead in the right direction.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Michael McDaniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erlangy@autosys.us">erlangy@autosys.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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old but may get you started ...<br>
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<a href="http://trapexit.org/Distributed_erlang_using_ssl_through_firewalls" target="_blank">http://trapexit.org/Distributed_erlang_using_ssl_through_firewalls</a><br>
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~Michael<br>
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:38:06AM -0500, Alex wrote:<br>
> Hey all,<br>
> Tried digging around the archives for this one, but didnt come up with<br>
> much.<br>
> Just started playing with Erlang a few weeks ago, and like it a lot.<br>
> Nice breath of fresh air after spending years fighting with shared<br>
> memory thread programming. :)<br>
> Anyway, my question is in regard to communication between instances<br>
> over insecure networks and/or nodes. The case example is a network of<br>
> IRC servers. Having all nodes in the same Erlang instance would be<br>
> nice, and would make cross server communication a snap. Only issue is<br>
> that if someone intercepts the magic cookiee, they gain access to all<br>
> nodes, Not a good thing.<br>
> Is there any way to encrypt node communication over SSL in the default<br>
> runtime, or is this something that would have to be handed off to user<br>
> code in a port? Another thing that would be nice to have is the<br>
> ability to authenticate remote nodes based on priv/pub key<br>
> authentication, possible? or does it fall into roll you own terratory?<br>
> thanks in advance,<br>
> --Alex<br>
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