[zeromq-dev] More security thoughts

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> Right. And both actually boil down to the same model:
>
> Application-thread <-> Encryption(device)-thread <-> I/O-thread
>
> You can even think of running several encryption threads in parallel
> (parallelised pipeline a.k.a. PUSH/PULL).

Hmm, doing that in parallel would mean that messages would end up out
of order unless you resynchronize them.

A generic security device would be cool but possibly quite hard to
design, since it'd need to support multiple socket patterns.

-Pieter