[zeromq-dev] Zmq Security for the C# wrapper

[Arnaud Kapp]

Hello,

Welcome to the list.

What version of ZeroMQ (libzmq) are you using? If you're running on a
fairly recent libzmq the crypto API should be available -- provided
that you built libzmq with libsodium support.

I am not familiar with clrzmq4, but yes I believe it shouldn't be *too* hard.
Enabling encryption is simply setting a few options on your sockets.
However, authentication is done through the ZAP (http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:27).
So you'd have to implement a ZAP handler (this is fairly easy) that would
validates the authentication. Unless clrzmq4 were implementing one
and providing abstraction on top of this handler.


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Robert Pickering
<robertfpickering at fastmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this list so sorry if I'm breaking some protocol that I don't
> know about :) I've done some googling about this topic, but info is a
> bit unclear to me, so I thought I write to list for clarification.
>
> Currently using zmq to provide sub/pub messaging in our C# application.
> This is all working nicely, but I'd like to add authentication and
> encryption and it seems the APIs to do this are not yet exposed to C#.
>
> From what I've read there's two implementation of zmq security, one in
> the native c++ zmq repo [1], if it's possible to use the latest version
> of zmq (as we do), then you should use this one. There also exists a
> reference implementation outside of the main repo, for people can't use
> the latest version zmq. It's available here [2].
>
> From what I've read in Pieter Hintjens's blog [3], the interface to the
> security apis doesn't look too complicated, so if I were to folk and the
> C# wrapper [4] and add the missing api calls it should be reasonable
> straight forward. Has anyone tried this before? Is there some pitfall
> that I missing that would make this a trick task?
>
> Kind regards,
> Robert
>
> [1] https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq
> [2] https://github.com/zeromq/libcurve
> [3] http://hintjens.com/blog:49
> [4] https://github.com/zeromq/clrzmq4
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