[Info-vax] East Coast and West Coast, Cathedral, Bazaar

[Mark Berryman]

On 12/28/18 11:41 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> As a specific example of problems, the default OpenVMS development 
> environment is seriously inadequate, as compared with the tooling 
> available on other platforms.  The oft-vaunted security is another area 
> that needs substantial work.  Try using TLS on OpenVMS.  Create a TLS 
> connection and verify the certificates on both ends trace back to 
> currently-enabled commercial certificate authorities.   I *dare* you.

Done.

Established TLS connection from Mac to OpenVMS system.
Host certificate verified against CA.
Data accepted from Mac by OpenVMS system.

Of course, all of the work was done for me by PHP.  There is a PHP 
application on the MAC that needs to talk to the OpenVMS system and PHP 
won't complete the connection without validated certificates.  All PHP 
needed to know was where the certificates for the acceptable CAs were.

Mark Berryman