SSL Authentication Only


EMS servers can use SSL for secure data exchange (standard usage), or only for client authentication. This section describes the use of SSL for client authentication.

Motivation

Some applications require strong or encrypted authentication, but do not require message encryption.

In this situation, application architects could configure SSL with a null cipher. However, this solution incurs internal overhead costs of SSL calls, decreasing message speed and throughput.

For optimal performance, the preferred solution is to use SSL only to authenticate clients, and then avoid SSL calls thereafter, using ordinary TCP communications for subsequent data exchange. Message performance remains unaffected.

Preconditions

All three of these preconditions must be satisfied to use SSL only for authentication:

See Also

ssl_auth_only


TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™ User’s Guide
Software Release 4.3, February 2006
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