<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There's a patch available that partly addresses this issue of secure multi-protocol support of nodes using SSL between data centers (<a href="https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/121">https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/121</a>), and non-secure communication on a local network.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Though rejected for inclusion in OTP in its current form (<a href="http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2014-January/004523.html">http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2014-January/004523.html</a>), the gradual introduction of these features is still on the radar.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Serge</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Miles Fidelman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net" target="_blank">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
John Kemp wrote:<br>
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On 04/04/2014 08:10 AM, Arif Ishaq wrote:<br>
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I just saw a post by Carlos-Trigoso on the security, or rather lack<br>
thereof in Erlang<br>
(<a href="http://carlos-trigoso.com/2014/03/04/security-taken-lightly/" target="_blank">http://carlos-trigoso.com/<u></u>2014/03/04/security-taken-<u></u>lightly/</a>) .<br>
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It seems like a fair evaluation.<br>
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I would suggest that it is _not_ a fair evaluation.<br>
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As Loïc mentioned, name any language or OS environment that does something like what the author suggests for Erlang?<br>
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Well.... Fabric comes to mind: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/fabric_v0.2.0/fabric.pdf" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/fabric_v0.<u></u>2.0/fabric.pdf</a>, so does E (<a href="http://erights.org" target="_blank">erights.org</a>). As does a LOT of work in the areas of secure distributed operating systems, distributed agent systems, and such.<br>
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I guess you could also look at various web service platforms.<br>
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On the other hand, Erlang stands alone as a mature, proven, in-production distributed run-time environment for highly concurrent systems - so it's not clear that comparisons to other languages or operating system environments apply.<br>
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But more than that, why would protocols for connecting nodes inside of a network be the same as protocols used between data-centres, particularly when connections between data centres will possibly go across networks not owned by the owner of the data centres?<br>
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Am I wrong, but I wasn't under the impression that Erlang's distributed processing functions are only for connecting nodes inside a data center.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Miles Fidelman<br>
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br>
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra<br>
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