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Secure way to obtain host address
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Nuno Miguel Santos
Greenhorn
Joined: Nov 01, 2011
Posts: 10
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I'm doing a simple RMI project that guarantees a secure communication between a server and client residing on different computers.
So, for communication, I thought of using RMISocketFactory, with an SSLSocket.
My problem resides in obtaining the host address, I don't want it hard-coded in my program.
What secure ways do I have for obtaining an host address?
Encrypt in a text file and read from it?
Regards, Nuno.
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Nitesh Kant
Bartender
Joined: Feb 25, 2007
Posts: 1638
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Why do you need to encrypt a hostname?
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Pat Farrell
Rancher
Joined: Aug 11, 2007
Posts: 4422
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By definition, on the whole internet, host names are public. That is what DNS (dynamic name service or distributed name service) is all about.
If you want to connect to www.google.com, its public. Period.
I would strongly recommend that you do not use RMI for this project. Use HTTP or if you really need security, use HTTPS
See
http://www.coderanch.com/t/570237/java/java/Why-there-still-interest-lots
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