While thinking about the kinds of application I could build with 0MQ, it occurred to me that some applications might benefit from authentication and encryption. Say, for example, using 0MQ as the backbone for a health care application.
I guess you could argue the impetus should be on applications to address their own security needs at a higher layer than 0MQ (network design, etc), but it seems like the transport layer has proven to be the right abstraction for this in other architectures. Realizing that 0MQ "goes against the grain" to keep things simple and highly performant, I thought it would be an interesting discussion to gauge if there's interest in this topic or if it's decidedly outside the scope of the project. So, I'm not really making an enhancement request here, mainly just asking to expand my understanding of the architectural constraints with which 0MQ is being developed and to survey how others feel that this sort of security should be addressed in a 0MQ-based application. Thanks. _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
