[zeromq-dev] Encryption (OpenSSL/TLS)

Steven McCoy steven.mccoy at miru.hk
Fri Oct 1 10:33:19 CEST 2010


On 1 October 2010 16:17, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Forgetting multicast for a minute, could we not do TLS for TCP
> connections by using devices, i.e. creating a VPN within the 0MQ
> fabric itself?  I can get the same effect today by tunneling 0MQ over
> HTTPS, so it's obviously doable.
>

There is still DTLS,

http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2010-January/001822.html

<http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2010-January/001822.html>The
question is whether 0MQ should expose a security through simply changing the
transport name and adding certificates.

0MQ over TLS would accelerate easier than DTLS but you limit security to a
single hop and transport.

-- 
Steve-o
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