1. Introduction
2. Cryptography
1. Introduction
Currently A-Stack platform does not provide a means to establish a trust among the peer nodes. So There is a possibility that an unauthorized peer can establish a communication channel within the platform cluster and can maliciously manipulate the network data resulting into the failure of the system. So it is very important to have a mechanism so that all the peers in the platform ecosystem should validate each others identify before establishing the the communication channel. This ensure the integrity of the whole A-Stack echo system.
Apparently, there is a need of a dedicated component (i.e.Trust Manager) within the A-Stack platform which set the rules of authentication and by using this rule, a peer ensure the authenticity of other side peer.
Before we go ahead into the details of Trust Manager. Lets get familiar ourself with the some knowledge of Cryptography, Secure Socket Communication and Transport Layer Security.