[MOBY] [MOBY-l] Re: [Mygrid-developers] "BioMoby in Java" updated

[Mark Wilkinson]

Security by obfuscation :-)

Because it is a public interface, we simply (in the early prototype)
create an enormous ID number so that it can't easily be guessed and
de-registered by some yahoo with a palm-pilot.  In the new version (I'm
writing it now) we will have email authentication for deregistration,
and therefore not need a 'big ID number' anymore.

M


On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:42, Alan Robinson wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I was having a go with the "TestingCentral" tool.
> 
> Going through the output, there were a couple of things that caught my
> eye:
> 
> 1) A *REALLY* big id apparently being generated by MOBY when registering a
>    service:
> 
> METHOD: registerService 'TestingService_1048793444297'
> ----------------------------
> <MOBYRegistration>
> <id>63126151646453781418457781341446655375633553121836</id>
>                                 <success>1</success>
>                                 <message><![CDATA[]]></message>
>                         </MOBYRegistration>
> 
> 2) One of the services trying to deregister twice with ID '000009', but
>    apparently using an ID of '0' the first time?
> 
> METHOD: deregisterService "000009"
> ---------------------------
> <MOBYRegistration>
>                                 <id>0</id>
>                                 <success>1</success>
>                                 <message><![CDATA[]]></message>
>                         </MOBYRegistration>
> METHOD: deregisterServiceType "000009"
> ---------------------------
> <MOBYRegistration>
>                                 <id>000009</id>
>                                 <success>1</success>
>                                 <message><![CDATA[]]></message>
>                         </MOBYRegistration>
> 
> 
> I ran the tool a couple of times, and saw the same thing happening again.
> 
> 
> Alan.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Martin Senger wrote:
> 
> > Dear Moby-users,
> >    I have updated Java client accessing the Moby registry. The clients are
> > available for download and playing with normally from the BioMoby CVS, but
> > also separately from a convenient distribution package.
> >    Please see details in the updated documentation. Before it appears on
> > the main BioMoby homepage, you can find it also at
> > http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger/jMoby/.
> > 
> >    I am looking forward for any comments, suggestions and bug reports.
> > 
> >    Martin
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
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> > 
> > 
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