[Zope-dev] PKI, SOAP with Zope?

[Teemu Yli-Elsilä]

Dear All,


We are considering Zope as a platform for product development in 
our company. There are a few important requirements the 
availability of which was not obvious to me.

1. PKI support for authenticating users using client-side 
certificates (obviously over a SSL connection). To be used with 
smart cards as well as certificate files as client-side 
authentication vessel (ie. no username/password prompts).

2. Related to the former, digital signing of content on the Zope 
server.

3. Further related: Encrypted storage for selected documents on 
the server (PGP/whatever).

4. SOAP support, acting as both server and client.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the possibilities of having Zope 
support these? And, if a product is not available, what would it 
take to implement such support in Zope?

We are currently only beginning to train our staff in 
Python/Zope, so any insight would be greatly appreciated.

The products would likely utilize the CMF/Plone frameworks.

Thanks in advance for any help,

-- 
  Teemu Yli-Elsilä
  Software Designer, Mawell Oy
  http://www.mawell.com/