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On RSS Security

(Posted by adam)

I've been mystified for a while by people talking about a need for RSS security products, as if those were somewhat different than other HTTP security products. Apparently, I wasn't alone in this, Greg Reinacker, CTO of Feedburner Newsgator writes:

I was on a call the other day with some folks in the industry, and someone made a comment to the effect of "we really need to come up with some kind of solution for securing RSS feeds - then we can really do some cool stuff." Before I could get on my soapbox, someone else on the call concurred with the first person. When I mentioned that this stuff has been figured out already, and started describing the existing widely-used mechanisms, they were both a bit surprised, and suggested I write something about it. So here we go. :-)
Read "RSS Security" before you pitch that great new startup idea spend money on an RSS security product.

Posted by adam on September 12, 2005 at 10:45 AM in information security . You can: comment, view comments (4), see trackbacks (0) or search Technorati.

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One small correction - I'm actually CTO of NewsGator. :-)

Posted by: Greg Reinacker | September 12, 2005 12:38 PM

Well well, Greg ... I guess I better watch my back!

Posted by: Eric Lunt | September 12, 2005 3:36 PM

I've been wondering about that, too, and assumed it was companies hoping to grab funding by fixing a nonexistent problem. I'm already reading a couple of "private" RSS feeds, daily, using HTTP basic auth over HTTPS...

Posted by: Justin Mason | September 12, 2005 4:44 PM

Eric,

Sorry that this was how you had to find out about your new job. :)

Posted by: Adam | September 12, 2005 5:19 PM