[zeromq-dev] Pub/Sub questions

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Marc Ilgen <marc at westofpluto.com> wrote:

>> Suppose I set up a client/server system with SUB and PUB sockets. I want
>> the client to have to authenticate its ability to subscribe and I want the
>> server to have the ability to unsubscribe a specific named client in the
>> case that the client's subscription credentials expire or become invalid
>> for any reason.

There's a proposal here: http://www.zeromq.org/topics:pubsub-security

Based on Salt.

To unsubscribe specific clients you have to rotate the key.

-Pieter