[zeromq-dev] Encryption in ZeroMQ

[Wladimir van der Laan]

Hello all,

First to say I'm really excited by ZeroMQ and can't wait to start using it
for some project. Moving the handling of parallelism into the messaging
library is really brilliant.

Secondly, I know this topic has been in this mailing list a few times
already, but I cannot help but mention it again. Especially with the advent
of wireless and shared clouds it has become so easy to sniff unencrypted
internet protocols. And with the firesheep hype, sniffing has become
mainstream.

When you advertise as the next-generation internet protocol I feel that
encryption should be part of it. It should be part of the fabric of the
internet. And if the application has to explicitly worry about encryption,
message replay, and so on it kind of poops the party of 'easy to use instant
awesomeness' :)

I know about VPN, IPSEC, but all of these are kind-of bolted on solutions
and are very hard to use if you won't fully control all the servers and
clients.

Anyway, I just felt like venting my opinion on this. I'm pretty sure
encryption is already high on your priority list.

Keep up the good work with ZeroMQ!

Greetings,
Wladimir
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