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Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver.
From: bigbert007 <bigbert007 () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:34:09 -0400
Till - great recommendation, I'll expand on it.Depending on the back end app server, there is usually a mechanism in place for creating a trust between the web server and appserver and then encrypting that connection with SSL. When credentials are entered the entire pipe is encrypted from the client > webserver > app server based upon that trust relationship and SSL- encrypted connection
Websphere has this option available as does Tomcat. I suspect that Coldfusion and other app servers have something similar.
Good luck. Don Till Elsner wrote:
What about securing (i.e. encrypting) the connection between web server and app server itself, like connecting to the app server from the web server via a SSH-forwarded local port? You could keep the original authentication method and have the entire communication encrypted anyway.Greetings Till Am 07.09.2009 um 08:04 schrieb Chintan Oza:Dear All, We have a web application which perform user authentication on id+password basis. The architecture is like this. Browser<-HTTPS->WebServer<-->AppServer We have a requirement where password should not be available to the WebServer (even in hashed format). Only solution that I can think of is having an Applet performing PKI encryption on the password before submitting the form. Please suggest if there are any better alternatives. Thanks, Chintan
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- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver., (continued)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ali, Saqib (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ali, Saqib (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Robert Hajime Lanning (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. EXT-Adams, Randall E (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. arvind doraiswamy (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. arvind doraiswamy (Sep 08)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Chintan Oza (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ken Schaefer (Sep 07)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Till Elsner (Sep 08)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. bigbert007 (Sep 08)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Calderon, Juan Carlos (GE, Corporate, consultant) (Sep 09)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. bigbert007 (Sep 08)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Martin O'Neal (Sep 07)
- RE: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Martin O'Neal (Sep 08)
- Re: Securing password between webserver & appserver. Ali, Saqib (Sep 07)