[zeromq-dev] Generating Curve certs in pyzmq

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 06:16:42 CEST 2013


Thanks MinRK, as always your work is fantastic. These higher level
functions being directly in libzmq will be crutial to making the bindings
smooth here and I am excited to see the work he moving forward.

I will keep code diving and looking for places to jump in and help.

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 5:27 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:

> zcert and zauth are in czmq, not libzmq, and pyzmq doesn't wrap czmq. But
> all of these things can be implemented with socket options, etc., which are
> up to date with master in pyzmq.  Once some of the auth APIs stabilize, I
> will work out what helpful utilities belong in pyzmq (e.g. easy ZAP
> threads, etc.).   I'm also working on a PR to put curve_keygen into
> zmq_utils, so it is available to all bindings as a library function,
> without having to wrap libsodium separately.
>
> -MinRK
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I imagine I am missing something basic here, I can see where the certs
>> are being generated in the examples but I am having a hard time tracking
>> down a few more things...
>>
>> 1. In the Ironhouse example the integrity of the client is verified, but
>> I am missing where the integrity of the server is verified, can I just add
>> a zauth_configure_curve call to the client end and store the server's
>> public cert?
>> 2. I am having trouble finding the routines in pyzmq to replicate all of
>> the routines in the blog post. Are the zcert_new routines in pyzmq's git
>> yet? If not, can someone please point me in the right direction to know
>> where I can help get them added?
>>
>> Thanks again for ZeroMQ and for the new Curve stuff, this is going to
>> help out immensely!
>>
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