Mike thanks very much for response. I appreciate your work and will be looking forward its integration...
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > Deepak, I expect for the wire encryption support to be committed > relatively soon, for what it's worth. We didn't have an implementation > until recently, and I'm interested in getting it committed. > > Not that many people had voiced that as something they thought was > important until recently, so nobody had worked on it. > > Regards, > Mike > > > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Mike Percy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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" >>> >>> >> >
