HTTPBlackbox .NET - Vendor

What's new in SecureBlackbox HTTP/HTTPS client 9.0:

• Now it's possible to POST or PUT data by provifing them on-the-fly, rather than by preparing the complete data stream. This allows you to send the data, whose size is initially not known or when the amount of data is large or when the data is generated on-the-fly

HTTPBlackbox package of SecureBlackbox
HTTP is a basis for World Wide Web communications. HTTP can work over plain channel or over encrypted SSL or TLS connection.

Since HTTPS is built on top of SSL/TLS connection, HTTPBlackbox includes components for generic SSL/TLS transport.

Unlike symmetric encryption, securing communications with SSL/TLS doesn't require that the sides know the shared secret (password/encryption key). Also, the public key security (PKI) lets each side examine authenticity of the other side and prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

Another benefit of SSL/TLS is that PKI infrastructure is a widely-used technology, so implementation and maintenance of SSL/TLS-based solutions are quite simple tasks. For certificate creation, management and validation HTTPBlackbox uses PKIBlackbox, base functions of which are included with HTTPBlackbox package.

HTTPBlackbox was designed to be easy-to-use component which operates in blocking (synchronous) mode.

HTTPBlackbox has been tested and found compatible with various HTTP servers and SSL/TLS implementations.

HTTPBlackbox does not use CryptoAPI, OpenSSL or other third-party encryption library.

HTTPBlackbox is offered as an individual package and as a part of Professional, Standard, Transports and SSLBlackbox packages.

HTTPBlackbox Feature list:

SSLBlackbox includes a client-side HTTP / HTTPS protocol implementation, which offers the following HTTP features:

• client-side support for HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 including keep-alive requests and chunked encoding (the features required by HTTP 1.1);
• client-side support for HTTP over SSL (HTTPS);
• flexible support for client-side authentication in HTTPS;
• handling of GZip and Deflate compression;
• easy to use cookie management;
• support for files over 4 Gb;
• support for HTTP, SOCKS and HTTP CONNECT (web tunneling) proxies;
• support for "Windows Integrated" or NTLM authentication on both destination servers and proxy servers;
• easy to use data post capabilities with methods to post web forms and binary data streams;
• flexible redirection handling;
• bandwidth control;
• IPv6 support;
• DNSSEC support

SSL/TLS Protocol implementation contains the following features, common to both client-side and server-side components:

• complete support for SSL 2, SSL 3, TLS 1.x versions of the protocol;
• client and server DTLS (Datagram TLS) protocol support which lets you secure your UDP communications;
• flexible support for client-side certificate authentication;
• user-controlled validation of certificates;
• built-in compression;
• optional resuming of SSL sessions;
• support for Cryptocards and USB Crypto Tokens;
• authentication using pre-shared key (passphrase);
• authentication using OpenPGP keys (requires OpenPGPBlackbox);
• standard and custom TLS extensions;
• data transfer using events/callbacks, i.e. possibility to secure not only socket-based, but also other types of data exchange;
• support for key length from 512 to 16384 bits;
• support for RSA, DSA and DH public key algorithms;
• support for ECC-based cipher suites;
• data encryption with Camellia, AES (128 to 256 bit), Triple DES (3DES), DES, ARCFOUR, RC2 algorithms;
• integrity checking using HMAC, SHA1 and MD5 algorithms;
• asynchronous operation mode which lets you easily build synchronous and asynchronous applications

PKI Infrastructure - besides FTPSBlackbox includes base functions of PKIBlackbox.

Available editions
HTTPBlackbox is available in several editions for various software platforms.

.NET edition. This edition of HTTPBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition requires .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, Silverlight 4, Silverlight 3, Mono 2.0, Mono 1.0, .NET CF (Compact Framework) 3.5, .NET CF 2.0, .NET CF 1.0.
.NET edition can be used on ASP.NET server systems, Windows desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs, Silverlight-enabled browsers, on Linux and MacOS X systems with Mono installed.

VCL edition. Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows and Linux applications. Usable with Delphi, C++ Builder or FreePascal (Win32 or x64, Linux/x86 or Linux/x64).
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.

ActiveX/DLL edition. ActiveX controls and Dynamically-Linked Libraries are useable with virtually any development tool, which supports ActiveX or DLLs. This includes ASP web pages, Visual Basic 6 applications, native C/C++ applications for Windows, shell and server-side scripts.
ActiveX/DLL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later.

Support requests from customers with Priority support are served ahead of requests from regular customers and evaluation version users.