SNC - Need more information

[Former Member]

Hello,

I would like to install a saprouter using SNC. But I have several questions whose answers I haven't found yet:

- Can I install niping / saprouter / sapcrypto.dll on a front-end PC? Would it be supported? Does it have to be a Server-OS or can it also be a Workstation OS like WinXP Prof?

- What kind of encryption does SNC use? What exactly is the method? Diffie-Helman? AES? RSA? How many bit? It is only said to use the "state-of-the-art encryption", but what exactly does that mean? Is there any technical document showing more details than the presentations on sap.com?

Thank you in advance

Michael

PS: Links or direct Notes would be very helpful!

[Former Member]

I am pretty sure that saprouter is just a simple routing program, controlling network packet routing by either denying or passing the packet. I am not aware of any SNC which can be installed/enabled in saprouter. As for the front-end, yes, depends on what you mean by front-end (SAPGUI, customized app, web browser), there are various ways to install the required SNC bits in the front-end.

More info here:

http://help.sap.com/erp2005_ehp_03/helpdata/EN/32/431c3aadda4f25e10000000a11402f/content.htm

[Former Member]

Hi,

yes, of course you can integrate it in saprouter. If you use sapcryptolib and the adequate profile parameters you can connect your saprouter with the SAP saprouter via SNC tunnel

I don't want to encrypt the communication between frontend like SAPgui AND saprouter, but MY saprouter with the SAP saprouter .. and MY saprouter will be in a DMZ on a frontend PC aka workstation PC using XP

Regards

Michael

[Former Member]

Sorry about that, I guess I don't have much experience w/ this. saprouter in my space is basically inside of my firewall in a secured network space, so I really haven't been looking into SNC for it. However, we are currently using the encrypto library described above for internal-SAP encryption, works very well. Good luck finding an answer and maybe someone on this forum has a better idea on SNC than me.

[Former Member]

No problem .. you could have brought me to other ideas .. Thank you, though