[zeromq-dev] Fwd: Access control

[Martin Sustrik]

Oliver Smith wrote:
> On 7/27/2010 12:18 PM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
>> As for real solution the only way to have authenticated pub/sub IMO is
>> to encrypt messages on publisher and decrypt them on terminal
>> subscriber. (All the intermediate untrusted nodes would just forward
>> encrypted data.)
>>
>> Only subscribers with correct key would be able to make any use of the
>> messages then.
>>    
> You'd still have to implement a per-subscriber authentication system to 
> achieve this, only now it would be an independent mechanism, sending 
> data on a second system.

Exactly.

Martin