Re: Single SignOn

[BGrubin () SCIENT COM (Ben Grubin)]

Good lord, I hope this saves you a lot of trouble.

The enCommerce application is unbelievably shaky.  Security wise, since it
utilizes CORBA services in a multi-tier method, it becomes hellishly unhappy
to firewall between the CORBA service providers and the clients (such as the
Netscape Enterprise Server plugin), it's use of UDP also makes this
challenging.  More importantly though, they used CORBA without a real
need---it's overly complex.  We did a major ecommerce financial
implementation, and found it's scalability *severely* lacking.  We're
probably 15 patchlevels ahead of the standard distribution, and even then
it's the most common component failure in the entire system.

At it's core, it's simply an immature product, much like the rest of the
space, but it does have potential.  I do not have experience with the IBM
product to compare it.

Hope it helps,
Cheers,
Ben

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanna P. Rella [mailto:vamprella () CHICKMAIL COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 2:22 PM
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Single SignOn
>
>
> BlueBoar and Friends,
> I am evaluating 2 products for securing e-commerce
> applications. These are GetAccess by EnCommerce and Secure
> Net by IBM. Please break both of these products and let me
> know which one is more secure. Ok, just kidding. Have any of
> your heard of any gotchas or security holes with either of
> these products? I've already checked out the major
> vulnerability sites cve.mitre.org, securityfocus.com,
> attrition.org, ntbugtraq.com, etc. I've also checked the
> usenet. And I can't believe that there aren't any holes. What
> is the most popular e-commerce single sign-on out there, anyway?
>
> Thanks!
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