Building Java™ Enterprise Systems with J2EE™

Chapter 28. CORBA Security

IN THIS CHAPTER

• CORBA Security Overview

• Authentication

• Delegation

• Authorization

• Auditing

• Nonrepudiation

• Encryption

• Security Policies

• Security Administration

One of the OMG CORBAservice components that relates to assurance is the CORBA Security Service. The CORBA Security Service, like other CORBA services, is defined to function primarily atop the ORB layer. However, CORBA Security also defines some changes to the ORB layer as well to enable interoperability and enhanced security. The CORBA Security Service is defined in the OMG Security Service Specification. The idea behind the Security Service Specification was that by using components that implement the Security Service Specification, CORBA-based enterprise applications could ...