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Free/Open ACE Servers?

Posted by Cliff on from the escaping-the-proprietary-trap dept.

Tsk asks: "One of the companies I work for uses ACE server for which I need a SecurID. This works fine in closed source Unix environment, however at home I have a mix of closed source unix, free unixes and Windows machines. I would like to be abe to use my SecurID at home and thus secure my network. I'm trying to do this because I have a client that only has BSD/Linux servers, who would like to implement a SecureID based solution. I did a Google search already using 'ACE server Open' and 'ACE server Free' and received no results. I'm wondering if such setup is doable, if the software to build it is available?"

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  1. That's RSA-S's product by martin · · Score: 4, Informative

    #include "I_used_to_work_for_RSA_security.h"

    There's a whole gammet of copyright and patent stuff in the SecurID tokens and ACE/Servers.

    This is where RSA-Security make their money and they are hardly about to open this stuff up. Yes I know the big money spinner are the tokens (you have to buy an ew one every 3 or 5 years as the battery dies after that period), but they are hardly going to open up their algorithm for inspection by 'the world at large'. IF their where a problem with the problem I don't thing they'd take take lightly to people exposing it (can we say DCMA).

    Of course these things have been out there for many years and no-one has yet reverse engineering the algo and the algo has some very repected people look at it (they boought RSA a few years ago).

    But there's very very little chance of you replicating this stuff with 'free' software.