Jim Starkey wrote:

>ZeBeDee may be a work around, but I don't see it has a viable long term
>solution. In specific, I don't think it's reasonable to require anyone
>who needs a reasonably secure protocol to acquire, install, learn,
>administer, and use a third party product, even if the third party
>product is free. And ease of use considerations aside, I suspect a
>significant number of potential Firebird users will choke at the idea of
>installing an unknown security package. I'm less paranoid than many,
>but I don't want it on my systems.
>
>Another consideration is that we may want the remote protocol to encrypt
>only the password exchange, not data records, something that we couldn't
>do with ZeBeDee.
>
>

Yes, it would be great if that we an configuration option. Probably in a
lot of cases, the data stream isn't confidential enough to be worth
encrypting, but significant time could be saved if it were compressed.

I agree, while Zebedee is good, it would be considerably better to
integrate this into the wire protocol. Another reason is that using
Zebedee, you not only have to download, install, and configure it
(which, granted, is not that difficult), but, more importantly, you also
have to reconfigure your applications to use a different connection
string. If you want to access multiple hosts using Zebedee, you have to
setup one Zebedee port redirection per host. It's rather counter
intuitive to have to connect to the local host on a predefined port in
order to access a remote host.

So, as you say, I agree that this is something that would be best
integrated into FireBird. Sure, Zebedee is a nice solution for now, so
this certainly isn't top priority, but it would still be a very nice
feature which most people would appreciate.

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Best regards,
Jonathan Neve
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