[NEW PROJECT] DCOP Net Server

[Brad Hards]

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On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 07:10 am, Raphael Langerhorst wrote:
> Let me know what you think about it and what could be made better. Also if
> someone is interested in helping me with this I would very much appreciate
> that. Especially if the person is more familiar with DCOP than I am (I am
> no expert, just read the documentation (KDE development book and kdelibs
> help) and a little bit of the class reference, not much practical
> programming experience with DCOP so far. Also I'm no guru on network
> security. Help here would be great.
It is not clear what you actually intend to use this capability for. Some 
examples of what this would allow (that can't be done now) would probably 
help. Ob Buzzword: use-case.

Don't make your code security critical. Find a way to offload the problem 
(like ssh, although you just increased the DCOP "weight" a lot). SASL is a 
widely accepted (if badly documented) authentication mechanism that might 
help if you only need authentication. We have SASL support in kdelibs.Finding 
a way to make it work with D-BUS would probably help. Interoperability is a 
fine thing. All of this is moot if you only have a solution in search of a 
problem though, so you need to come up with a good problem statement.

Brad
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