On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
Are the posters in this thread unwilling to criticize C2Net's StrongHold because they're afraid to get obnoxious threatening letters from Sameer Parekh's shysters?
For what it's worth, we use Stronghold and are very happy with it. They ship almost all the code, and they provide worthwhile crypto outside of the States. Being based on Apache it has a fairly vibrant development community, so you can obtain modules to do Java servlets, inline Perl, access to various DBs, and so on, and participate in the development of those modules. It's moderately easy to install, configure, and customize, although you'd probably want a little bit of Unix sysadmin experience. I believe an NT port is in alpha. Criticism? A few times I've run into SIGSEGV's in the crypto libraries. To be fair, the problems are only visible when you plug in third-party modules, there are workarounds, and they may in fact be not Stronghold's fault. Also, their manual seems to have been out of print for months -- not such a problem because there's an online version, but still a bit annoying. UKWeb's technical support are quite good and compare extremely well to that of some large organizations. I have no evidence in support or rebuttal of C2Net's alleged harrassment of Dr Vulis, so I won't comment on that. -- Martin Pool Pharos