Security Implementation in Spread

• Authentication and access control:
  • General framework supporting many different authentication methods.
  • IP, password.
  • Any application access control policy.

• Encryption and key management done at the library level (Secure Spread):
  • Encryption: Blowfish.
  • Key management: supports five different key agreement protocols, among them a robust protocol based on GDH.

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