Depending on the security mechanism you choose, Adaptive Server allows you to use one or more of these security services:
Unified login – authenticates users once, without requiring them to supply a name and password every time they log in to an Adaptive Server.
Message confidentiality – encrypts data over the network.
Mutual authentication – verifies the identity of the client and the server. Mutual authentication can be requested only by the client; it cannot be required by Adaptive Server.
Message integrity – verifies that data communications have not been modified.
Replay detection – verifies that data has not been intercepted by an intruder.
Out-of-sequence check – verifies the order of data communications.
Message origin checks – verifies the origin of the message.
Credential delegation – allows the client to delegate the credential to the Adaptive server to enable secure connection with remote servers. This service is supported by Kerberos security mechanism. Adaptive server currently supports this for connections to remote Adaptive server through CIS.
Remote procedure security – establishes mutual authentication, message confidentiality, and message integrity for remote procedure communications through CIS for Kerberos connections.
The security mechanism you are using may not employ
all of these services. See “Getting information about available security services”.
