Re: Encrypted RMI in JDK < 1.2

Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 20:45:34 +0100

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Bill Frantz wrote:
>
> Benjamin Grosman <bgrosman@healey.com.au> asked:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Anyone ever done the above? If so, did you use SSL, or something else, and
> >how did you do it?
> >
> >Any help appreciated ... Please CC me.
>
> You can use the java.rmi.server.RMISocketFactory.setSocketFactory call to
> set up your own socket factory. My understanding is that people have used
> this mechanism to use SSL. Note that the reported remote call times are on
> the order of 20 seconds. This might be due the fact that a remote call
> with RMI seems to require building at least 3 sockets, with the attendant
> SSL setup overhead.

If you don't do session caching, that is :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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