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[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirk-willem.van.gulik@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Kirill Shileev wrote:

> Recently, playing with libcloud against a private openstack installation 
> we realized that 8773 and 8774 ports listened by openstack-nova-api expect plain HTTP.
> This is something that is rarely allowed in production installations. 
> .....
> Other option would be making this configurable, although not sure why and where the plain HTTP might be justified.
> 
> Any thoughts, comments?

An important side effect of slapping SSL with client/server certs on pretty much all connection is that it makes all sort of governance and validation jobs much easier from an organisational point of view. With more 'reuse' of existing process and validation.

The attack footprint/exposed estate now splits in three clean realms: issuing of client cert, security of the TCP and SSL layer - and a specific model for what happens within that connection. With the latter bound by the previous two. Furthermore client validation can be done with narly a secret in sight.

So for those reasons alone - SSLis good.

Dw.

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