Ability to securely interchange messages is of paramount importance within the Beryllium framework. Careful steps have been taken to ensure that information is transferred from one applications environment to another moving through multiple security domains.

Confidentiality of the information is maintained through session encryption, using SSL or OpenSSH as well as optional file encryption. Source and destination authentication is provided through a public/private key mechanism.

Availability of information is ensured through commonly available reliable network connections, supported by their respective

service level agreements as well as Beryllium s status monitoring feature, support for transient and persistent connection and complete message tracking.

Integrity of the transferred information is verified by comparing a set of checksums and signatures. In cases where such verification fails, the message or part thereof is retransmitted. Low overhead associated with the native transfer protocol enables retransmission of messages without taxing the available bandwidth.