Authentication

Authentication verifies the identities of components within the distributed system such as peers, clients, and those connecting to a JMX manager.

• Implementing Authentication

  All components of the distributed system authenticate the same way, through a custom-written method.

• Encrypting Passwords for Use in cache.xml

  Apache Geode provides a gfsh utility to generate encrypted passwords.

• Encrypt Credentials with Diffie-Hellman

  For secure transmission of sensitive information, like passwords, you can encrypt credentials using the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm.

• Authentication Example

  The example demonstrates the basics of an implementation of the SecurityManager.authenticate method.