Penrose supports secure SSL communication with Penrose clients. However, current implementation requires JVM 1.5 because of the dependency with SSLEngine implementation.
Additional Comments From itegebo dated Sun Mar 12 02:00:31 CST 2006 
SSL/TLS support is important for my organization; I tried setting up the JDBC3 driver for postgresql for SSL support.  I haven't confirmed with a tcpdump, but I got it to "connect" by passing in the following in the URL as per the website:

jdbc:postgresql://localhost/test?ssl=true&sslfactory=org.postgresql.ssl.NonValidatingFactory
http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/ssl-client.html

The site also makes this comment:

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When starting your Java application you must specify this keystore and password to use.

java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=mystore -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=mypassword com.mycompany.MyApp
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I was wondering where you were on this feature.

Additional Comments From jimyang dated Wed May 10 22:01:11 CDT 2006 
Documentation to configure SSL/TLS in Penrose is in the works.

Related documentation: http://docs.safehaus.org/display/APACHEDS/SSL+Enabling

Additional Comments From jimyang dated Thu May 18 13:29:05 CDT 2006 
Enabling SSL in Penrose. 

http://docs.safehaus.org/display/PENROSE10/Services


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