[caops-wg] GFD 125 CN for network entities

Mike Helm helm at fionn.es.net
Thu Jun 25 18:34:00 CDT 2009


Doug Olson writes:
> > The only network entity that ssl/tls can really distinguish is the host itself,
> > not the applications running on it.  Even that is not quite the right way

> The SSL layer is using whatever server certificate the application presents.
> Different applications should use different certificates.

There's no problem with that that I know of.
SSL/TLS and the Grid gssapi variant has certain issues that have to 
be addressed, that's all.

Thanks, ==mwh


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