The SSL protocol helps protect the privacy and integrity of data while it is transferred across a network. For Studio, network communication occurs at multiple points. In addition to the connections with the application user’s browser and with the LDAP server, there are other connections between Oracle Endeca components.
These communication links are encrypted with mutually-authenticated SSL by default. In each case, because authentication is mutual, both the host and the client must reference both a keystore and a truststore in order to get access to the certificates required to authenticate and be trusted.
The following diagram shows the SSL communication among the components
of a secure Oracle Endeca Information Discovery implementation, including:
- Between Studio and the Provisioning Service
- Between Studio and Endeca Server
- Between the Provisioning Service and Endeca Server
