[jacorb-developer] can we use encrypted passwords in orb.properties file for SSL use?

Nick Cross jacorb at goots.org
Thu Feb 4 10:06:38 CET 2016


The properties file can be read in a variety of ways. You can feed in 
the property values directly into the ORB init call and thereby delegate 
to your own encryption scheme?

Regards

Nick


On 30/11/15 10:20, Gopi Ramesh Sama wrote:
> Hi,
> In our project, we are implementing JacORB 3.5 with SSL.As part of this, we need to provide values for the below mentioned properties in orb.properties file for the SSL handshake.
> jacorb.security.keystore_password=<password>jacorb.security.default_user=<defuser>jacorb.security.default_password=<password>
> Directly providing passwords in the properties file is a security leak.So, is there any way to provide these properties values in an encrypted format and that is recognized by JacORB?I am looking for your thoughts on this.
> Thanks,Ramesh 		 	   		
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