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+################################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms
+# of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is 
+# available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+# 
+# Initial Contributors:
+# The following IBM employees contributed to the Remote System Explorer
+# component that contains this file: David McKnight, Kushal Munir, 
+# Michael Berger, David Dykstal, Phil Coulthard, Don Yantzi, Eric Simpson, 
+# Emily Bruner, Mazen Faraj, Adrian Storisteanu, Li Ding, and Kent Hawley.
+# 
+# Contributors:
+# {Name} (company) - description of contribution.
+################################################################################
+
+#
+# SSL Security Properties for RSE server and daemon
+#
+
+# Specify this property as true to enable SSL
+enable_ssl=false
+
+###################################
+# Daemon Properties
+###################################
+# The keystore file and password need to be specified for daemon
+# to use.
+#
+#daemon_keystore_file=
+#daemon_keystore_password=
+
+###################################
+# Server Properties
+###################################
+# The keystore file and password need to be specified for the
+# server to use.  If none is specified, the server falls back
+# to use the same keystore and password as the daemon
+#
+#server_keystore_file=
+#server_keystore_password=
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