Sunday, October 7, 2007

/n software IP*Works! SSL

IP*Works! SSL adds SSL and Digital Certificate capabilities to the IP*Works! Internet Toolkit providing Secure Web Browsing, Secure Client, Secure Server, Secure Mail, Digital Certificate Management Capabilities, and a lot more.

The client components such as FTPS, HTTPS, SMTPS, etc. provide full control over the process of setting up SSL connections, including certificate management, verification, and certificate-based client authentication. The secure server control, IPDaemonS, is a generic SSL server, providing full secure server capabilities, and the CertMgr control provides certificate management capabilities for the digital certificates installed on the system.


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Item Comparison

Which IP*Works! is right for me?

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 Visual Basic Edition: Best suited for building Internet and Intranet applications in Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET environments. In addition to fast ATL controls, it includes fully-managed .NET components with no dependencies on outside native code.

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 .NET Edition: 100% pure C# .NET components for SSL-enabled Internet programming. The same components as other versions of IP*Works! SSL ported to .NET for extreme portability with both .NET desktop and web applications.

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 ASP.NET Edition: ASP.NET components based on a 100% C# codebase, optimized for server side development. The edition of choice for ASP.NET applications.

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 ActiveX Edition: ActiveX Controls optimized for the Internet. Smaller, faster, and without dependencies on external libraries. The edition of choice for distributed Internet applications.

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 ASP Edition: COM library optimized for ASP pages and server-side programming. The programming interfaces are also especially designed for scripting environments. All the components are property- and method-driven and fully functional in environments where events are not supported.

  • IP*Works! SSL V6 .NET CF Edition: Fully-managed SSL-enabled .NET Compact Framework components based on a 100% C# codebase. The same components as other versions of IP*Works! SSL ported to the .NET CF for embedded application development.

Detailed Product Description

[Review] [Overview] [Features] [Components Included]

These Are Uncertain Times…

Once you have mastered the basic mechanics of writing socket-based applications, developing robust, intelligent network-capable software is a simple enough matter. Not only are we able to write typical client/server applications, we can add support for messaging, LDAP, Email, Telnet, HTTP, FTP and a lot more. Life is good and we can go home and rest all safe and snuggly in the knowledge that our software is robust, scalable, and full of all the features that are sure to make our systems a success.

Until we read the newspaper or switch on the evening news. Then we hear about the latest virus, security vulnerability, and cracker exploit. Stirred from our comfy chair in a seizure of anxiety, we wonder to ourselves: “Is MY application secure?” “Can my applications be compromised?” “Are my customers' data being handled safely and securely?” Well, you can rest easily, because the folks at /n software have you covered there, as well.

The Security Briefing

IP*Works! SSL and S/MIME are a collection of components that provide secure, network-based communications over encrypted sockets. The SSL package can provide Secured Socket Layer (SSL) and Digital Certificate capabilities to any application. The S/MIME package is a full-featured security toolkit that implements the S/MIME v2 standard for encryption using Public Key Cryptography standards. Together, these packages bring a wealth of secure networking capabilities to your applications. Let's take a closer look at the two.

IP*Works! SSL

The IP*Works! SSL suite is a collection of 16 different components supporting almost all of the popular Internet protocols. With a full range of features, they allow you to quickly build applications that are both robust and secure.

Email

Email is one of the more popular features requested in applications today, and the SSL suite provides a host of SSL-enabled components. The ability to securely protect the data and information emailed from point to point is essential in critical systems. The POPS component provides support for secure POP3 communications, allowing you to retrieve email from POP3 servers over SSL. You can also retrieve email from secure IMAP servers via the IMAPS component. Sending mail over SSL is achieved via the SMTPS component. A nice feature of SMTPS is that its interface is open-ended, allowing you to easily add support for additional features as they become available. Files and HTML-based email (including embedded images) can easily be managed using the FileMailerS and HTMLMailerS components.

Web Access

Extending your application to the World Wide Web in a secure manner is also supported by IP*Works! SSL via a rich set of components. Accessing web sites over SSL is a snap with the HTTPS component. Now you can very easily embed secured web pages into your application with just a couple of commands. Interaction with online web forms via SSL is provided by the WebFormS component, which allows you to POST data to other websites. Files can also be easily submitted to web servers using the WebUploadS component.

Networking

Support is also provided for several of the more common, more advanced networking protocols. Secure telnet is made capable by the TelnetS client components. The TelnetS component provides a simple interface to telnet communications, sending telnet commands to remote servers and firing relevant events for received commands. Secured LDAP communications is provided by the LDAPS component, allowing you search, manage and maintain directory servers that are SSL-enabled. Secure file transfers are made possible by the FTPS component. As many legacy and/or external systems exchange data with bulk transfers of data files transported over FTP, this is crucial for maintaining data security. IP*Works! SSL even provides support for securely reading, searching and posting articles on USENET, with the NNTPS component.

Other components in the suite offer support for secure SOAP clients, as well as providing you with the ability to create your own SSL-enabled network services. This is facilitated through a collection of components that include a generic, asynchronous TCP server socket (IPDaemonS) and an asynchronous client socket (IPPortS). Management of digital certificates is handled by the CertMgr component.




Overview

IP*Works! SSL is a no-compromise, comprehensive suite of royalty-free SSL-enabled components. It brings unprecedented ease of use to Secure Internet Development with drop-in replacements for the components in the "classic" IP*Works! package, well known in the development community for their straightforward, intuitive interfaces, and powerful productivity features.




Features

IP*Works! SSL adds SSL security capabilities to the base IP*Works! package. Supports secure implementations of every major SSL-enabled Internet protocol including: FTPS, HTTPS, SMTPS, POPS, IMAPS, LDAPS, SMPPS, XMPPS, SOAPS, WebDavS, CertMgr, etc.




Components Included

The following is a comprehensive list of the components included in IP*Works! SSL. Please note that due to platform limitations, not all components are available for all supported product platforms.

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