[openamq-dev] Encryption/C++ API

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Russell Adams
<RLAdams at adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:

>  Using SSL encryption & signing on messages at the client level makes
>  plenty of sense to me. That could also be integrated with
>  retransmission logic.

Yes, indeed.

>  This hit close to home for a need I had, and have been researching
>  alternatives among the open MQ implementations.

OK, we'll look at it.  What is your timescale?  We're in the middle of
other work on OpenAMQ (new release coming soon) but we could look at a
security framework after that.

>  I'd like to see an "untrusted" broker on the net that passes around
>  encrypted & signed messages between clients.

Absolutely.  Have you looked at
http://wiki.openamq.org/package:switch-or-broker?

This is our model for large area deployments of AMQP - federations of
untrusted brokers, and reliability (and security) done end-to-end
between clients.

-Pieter