[zeromq-dev] CURVE security on master

[Shaukat Mahmood Ahmad]

Good to know that,  is current implementation (of security) stable, I
mean can it be used in stable applications?

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A heads-up that we now have CURVE security partially working on libzmq master.
>
> This implements these RFCs:
>
> * http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:25/CURVE mechanism
> * http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:26/CurveZMQ
> * http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:27/ZAP - ZeroMQ Authentication Protocol
>
> Messages are not yet encrypted, this is the next step.
>
> I'll write a blog post about how this would work for 0MQ applications.
> In gross terms you need to provide public/secret keys via
> zmq_setsockopt, and an authentication service via the ZAP protocol (an
> inproc:// API).
>
> We are getting very close to (at least theoretical) fully secure
> authentication and encryption on ZeroMQ tcp:// connections.
>
> Thanks to Martin Hurton for the detailed work on libzmq.
>
> -Pieter
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