[zeromq-dev] GSSAPI/Kerberos ZeroMQ

[Pieter Hintjens]

Hi Chris,

This sounds awesome! We welcome all patches without discrimination,
though we reserve the right to patch them further.

My main question would be whether you had to import any foreign
libraries or whether you made a clean implementation of GSSAPI?

-Pieter


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Chris Busbey <cbusbey at connamara.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> We at Connamara Systems have recently had the opportunity to implement a
> Kerberos security mechanism for ZeroMQ.  This was done using GSSAPI with
> great success.  We started this a few months ago using Pieter's excellent
> blog series on Security as a template.
>
> Like the other security mechanisms in libzmq, we added GSSAPI within libzmq
> (our fork).  At the time, it wasn't clear how it would be possible to add
> this as an external thing that lives outside of libzmq.  We also extended
> our forks of czmq and jzmq to expose the mechanism.  We would like to
> contribute this back into ZeroMQ if it would have us.  Is this something
> that would fit within the ZeroMQ ecosystem?
>
> Demo of "GSSHouse": https://gist.github.com/cbusbey/11265987
>
> GSSAPI libzmq: https://github.com/connamara/libzmq
> GSSAPI czmq: https://github.com/connamara/czmq
> GSSAPI jzmq :https://github.com/connamara/jzmq
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Chris Busbey
> Connamara Systems, LLC
>
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