[zeromq-dev] TLS (openssl) for ZeroMQ

[Luca Boccassi]

On Mon, 24 Dec 2018, 23:03 林宝龙 <lbl52001 at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are adding TLS support for ZeroMQ(based on 4.2.5). Product reason, we
> choosed OpenSSL as TLS library.
>
> Ask community for suggestions, which solution below is better?
> 1. Use TLS public certification, private key, etc as socket option (set
> through setsockopt), ZeroMQ manages the OpenSSL context, one  OpenSSL
> context per socket_base_t object.
> 2. Use OpenSSL context as socket option(set through setsockopt), external
> application should provide the OpenSSL context, with public certification,
> private key, etc. set in context level, all ssl connections share the same
> configuration as the input OpenSSL context.
>
> At beginning we choosed the first solution, like curve, use public
> certification, private key as the socket option. But later on, we found the
> second solution that use external OpenSSL context can make the ZeroMQ code
> simpler, and more flexible, external application can configure the OpenSSL
> context without change the ZeroMQ socket options.
>
> Welcome your comments.
>
> Best regards,
> Baolong
>

The first option would be better, exposing third party API and ABI would be
a nightmare, especially for bindings. O

But the most important issue is that the Openssl license is not compatible
with libzmq, which is licensed under the lgpl3, so I'm afraid such
combination will not be legally distributable. At least not without a
relicensing effort to add an exception - we are already trying that to
change to mpl2 and are nowhere near done unfortunately.

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