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dexter

I have written two applications, a client and a server, which are communicating with each other using sockets, and communicate by XML over TCP. I am not using HTTP or IIS for this communication.
I am now trying to encrypt the traffic between them but am not sure what I should incorporate in order to encrypt the traffic between them?
I am considering SSL but do not know much about SSL and am not sure whether SSL is completely approppriate.

Should I use SSL? If so what classes do I use to encrypt this traffic?

Thanks

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Chris Love

Well I have experience with both SSL and some of the Encryption Classes.
SSL works great and is very easy to do. Just use the WebRequest and
post data to the URL with SSL.

Writing to the socket directly was a bit more tricky. In fact I never
quite got it to work properly with the server I was talking with. I
think it has to do with their custom DES encryption with no support
offered (Open Source). I am going to try it agin this week and
hopefully find out what I did wrong.

Chris Love

President

Extreme Web Works

919-836-0998

www.extremewebworks.com

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Subject: [ngfx-io] Encrypting Traffic between sockets

I have written two applications, a client and a server, which are
communicating with each other using sockets, and communicate by XML over
TCP. I am not using HTTP or IIS for this communication.

I am now trying to encrypt the traffic between them but am not sure what
I should incorporate in order to encrypt the traffic between them?

I am considering SSL but do not know much about SSL and am not sure
whether SSL is completely approppriate.

Should I use SSL? If so what classes do I use to encrypt this traffic?

Thanks

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