Comments on: Secure remote management for Xen/QEMU/KVM virtualization http://berrange.com/posts/2007/02/11/secure-remote-management-for-xenqemukvm-virtualization/ Writing about photography, open source software, virtualization & more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Huw http://berrange.com/posts/2007/02/11/secure-remote-management-for-xenqemukvm-virtualization/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Huw Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:09:00 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=45#comment-48 SSH is great for what it was designed for: getting secure access to a shell on the remote machine. And for ad-hoc tunneling it works just fine.<br /><br />Your comments about TLS/SSL were spot-on. It's no coincidence that in the world of grid computing where everything is distributed all the communications run over TLS/SSL. Of course certificate management brings it's own special set of headaches.<br /><br />For tunneling and authenticating apps that weren't designed for it I find stunnel to be extremely useful. SSH is great for what it was designed for: getting secure access to a shell on the remote machine. And for ad-hoc tunneling it works just fine.

Your comments about TLS/SSL were spot-on. It’s no coincidence that in the world of grid computing where everything is distributed all the communications run over TLS/SSL. Of course certificate management brings it’s own special set of headaches.

For tunneling and authenticating apps that weren’t designed for it I find stunnel to be extremely useful.

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