It's certainly possible to sniff the wire traffic using some tool like WireShark.
Regards, Mike Sent from my iPhone On Mar 12, 2013, at 5:29 AM, Deepak Tiwari <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Inder and Mike. > > My only thought was that since security has been a prime concern when we > transfer any data, so what could be the reason that its was not given as much > priority as it could have been. Could it be because since the transfer in RPC > and using avro serialized data, so its not same as transferring in plain text > and It might be difficult if not impossible for someone to troll? > > Regards, > > Deepak > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:29 AM, Inder Pall <[email protected]> wrote: >> As a cheap solution you can always setup a ssh tunnel through port >> forwarding to do this outside of flume...though it would need to be managed >> for timeouts/network errors >> >> Inder >> >> >> On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Mike Percy wrote: >>> No network encryption support yet but there is a patch up at >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-997 for this functionality. You >>> are welcome to take a look and provide any comments. Not sure what you mean >>> by #2, you would have to share more about your requirements / use case. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Mike >>> >>> On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Deepak Tiwari <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have to install Flume and ensure that data transfer from Agent to >>>>> Collector to Sink is secure enough. I noticed that some changes related >>>>> ssl in FLUME-13 and that is very old. I see some discussion at >>>>> http://search-hadoop.com/m/Unjdh2ovsNE/v=plain but I dont know if there >>>>> is any update after. >>>>> >>>>> I request someone, if possible to give a qualified answer to >>>>> >>>>> 1. Is encryption possible in the Agent to Collector to Sink communication. >>>>> 2. If not, does that mean RPC communication is secure enough if not >>>>> encrypted. >>>>> 3. Any pointers for security related design. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks very much for reading this much and appreciate someone's insight. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> >>>>> Deepak >> >> >> -- >> - Inder >> "You are average of the 5 people you spend the most time with" >
