No thoughts on encrypting and authenticating zookeeper-to-zookeeper 
communication?

On Mar 8, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Matt Wise <[email protected]> wrote:

> Currently we run Zookeeper out on the big bad scary internet using Stunnel as 
> an encryption and authentication system for our clients. Our single 5-node 
> Zookeeper quorum is in a single datacenter where we can control network 
> access and feel reasonably safe.
> 
> I've been thinking about scale recently, and I would love to be able to put 
> Zookeeper Observer nodes in each of our regions. We don't use VPC or any 
> other network-to-network tunneling technology. Stunnel is simple when you 
> have one client, and one endpoint, but it sucks when you have multiple 
> servers all trying to talk to each other.
> 
> Are there any plans to add SSL support to Zookeeper? Specifically to its own 
> private cluster communication ports? If not, what about running a Zookeeper 
> Observer in a "client" mode where I can point it to any of our 5 quorum 
> servers, and it acts as a kind of proxy for data -- without really "joining" 
> the cluster?
> 
> --Matt
> 

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