[Adium-devl] Out of process plugins (was: Distant objects)

[Joe Ranieri]

On May 4, 2007, at 09:07:52, Ofri Wolfus wrote:

> So instead of sharing AIAdium, share a proxy to it, and before the  
> proxy will forward any messages to AIAdium, the other side must  
> authenticate with it using whatever mechanism we decide. In  
> practice, the other side sees a "locked" AIAdium that is "unlocked"  
> only once you authenticate with it. Attempts to message the proxy  
> before authenticating will just be denied and/or reported/logged to  
> the user. This way there's no need to bother the user with trusted  
> processes attempting to connect, and only untrusted attempts will  
> be reported.

What's a good mechanism for authenticating (I'm not a security  
person...)?

-- Joe Ranieri