* RE: Re[2]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released
@ 2002-09-18 16:13 Ohad Rodeh
2002-09-18 16:36 ` Re[4]: " Yurii A. Rashkovskii
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From: Ohad Rodeh @ 2002-09-18 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Gerard Malecki; +Cc: caml-list
I'm the maintainer of Ensemble, so my judgement on which system is better
is of
course subjective. Having said that, I'll try to fairly describe what
Ensemble and
Spread can do.
Generally speaking, they are the same. Both provide group-communication to
users.
Spread splits functionality between a client process, and a server (daemon)
process.
The daemon process needs to run on every machine where there are clients.
User-applications link with the client library, and send/receive messages
through the
local daemon process.
Ensemble allows both client/server, and in-server applications, so that one
can also
write the applications to work as part of the server main-loop. Since
group-communication
applications are normally event-driven, linking into an existing main-loop
should not be
a problem.
Both systems support secure groups, though they have different models for
this. As an
aside, Ensemble intends to move from using OpenSSL to Xavier's cryptokit.
Ensemble splits the "server" into many small layers, where each layer is a
state-machine.
An Ensemble stack is, much like the OS communication stack, a set of layers
stacked on
top of each other. An Ensemble endpoint uses a stack to send/receive
messages. The
set of layers in the stack determine what guaranties are provided:
reliability, flow-control,
packet fragmentation, etc. Users can write they own layers, and there is a
lot of investment
in allowing users to dynamically switch layers on the fly, add new layers,
and debug them.
Equivalent functionality does not exist in Spread.
Ensemble also allows reliable point-to-point messaging, in the context of a
group. This
is similar toTCP, though with somewhat stronger guaranties.
In general, if you want to write an application that does not heavily use
group-communication,
you probably don't care so much about which system to use. If you'd like to
modify the system,
or write something really efficient, I'd suggest using Ensemble.
Ohad.
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John Gerard
Malecki To: "Yurii A. Rashkovskii" <yrashk@openeas.org>
<johnm@artisan.co cc: Ohad Rodeh <orodeh@alum.cs.huji.ac.il>
m> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released
18/09/2002 06:43
Please respond to
"John Gerard
Malecki"
Yurii A. Rashkovskii wrote (2002-09-18T12:16:01+0300):
>
> I know about Ensemble, and even use it now. OcamlSpread was an old
> library and I just decided to release it to public (may be somebody
> will need it :-) )
Hello Yurii (and Ohad),
Just out of curiosity, and without wanting to start any public
controversy, I was wondering about the differences between Spread and
Ensemble? (Except for implementation language they seem similar.)
Are there applications where one would be preferable to the other?
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* Re[4]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released
2002-09-18 16:13 Re[2]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released Ohad Rodeh
@ 2002-09-18 16:36 ` Yurii A. Rashkovskii
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From: Yurii A. Rashkovskii @ 2002-09-18 16:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ohad Rodeh; +Cc: John Gerard Malecki, caml-list
Hello Ohad,
Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 7:13:48 PM, you wrote:
OR> Both systems support secure groups, though they have different models for
OR> this. As an
OR> aside, Ensemble intends to move from using OpenSSL to Xavier's cryptokit.
Do you think it is really needed? One of my friend who is a degreed
specialist in security said that algorithms used in OpenSSL are
stronger than in Xavier's cryptokit.
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Best regards,
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* Re: Re[4]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released
@ 2002-09-18 16:56 Ohad Rodeh
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From: Ohad Rodeh @ 2002-09-18 16:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Yurii A. Rashkovskii; +Cc: caml-list
For Ensemble, or that I need is the symmetric encryption and
Diffie-Hellman. It is possible
that OpenSSL has a faster implementation of Diffie-Hellman, but as long as
the difference
is not too great, I'd rather use an OCaml library.
Ohad.
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"Yurii A.
Rashkovskii" To: Ohad Rodeh/Haifa/IBM@IBMIL
<yrashk@openeas.o cc: "John Gerard Malecki" <johnm@artisan.com>, caml-list@inria.fr
rg> Subject: Re[4]: [Caml-list] OcamlSpread 0.0.1 released
18/09/2002 09:36
Please respond to
"Yurii A.
Rashkovskii"
Hello Ohad,
Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 7:13:48 PM, you wrote:
OR> Both systems support secure groups, though they have different models
for
OR> this. As an
OR> aside, Ensemble intends to move from using OpenSSL to Xavier's
cryptokit.
Do you think it is really needed? One of my friend who is a degreed
specialist in security said that algorithms used in OpenSSL are
stronger than in Xavier's cryptokit.
--
Best regards,
Yurii mailto:yrashk@openeas.org
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