{{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages

[Oleg Vojvodić]

Sorry, I was not clear.

Yes I understand that stunnel runs at our location.

 

What I am confused about is that they insist on FIX messages being encrypted. Not the connection itself. 

 

Well maybe I misunderstand them. I will have to contact our customer’s network administrator to clear things with Bloomberg.

 

Thanks,

Oleg

 

From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Grant Birchmeier
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 4:31 PM
To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages

 

No, the tunnel would be completely on your end.  Stunnel is your SSH go-between.

 

QF/n app sends plaintext to stunnel, stunnel encrypts and sends to Bloomberg.  Bloomberg sends crypto to your stunnel, and stunnel decrypts and sends to your QF/n app.

 

-Grant

 

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <oleg at stinga.hr> wrote:

Thanks Chris.

 

My impression, after contacting them, was that Bloomberg does not use any tunneling. 

Are you saying that you know of an installation where they use it?

If so, that will greatly simplify things for me.

 

Oleg

 

From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Chris Busbey
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:07 PM


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Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages

 

Hi Oleg

QuickFIX/n does not natively support SSL yet, so you will need to use a proxy in order to connect to them.  stunnel is a common solution.  You can configure stunnel to use Bloomberg's certificate.  See stunnel.org for stunnel documentation. 

 

Chris.

 

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <oleg at stinga.hr> wrote:

Well, I am not sure what exactly I need. I’m still learning. But I think we do not need a secure connection, just encrypted FIX messages.

We are a small company and one of our customers wants a FIX connection with Bloomberg. BTW, do you know if there are any QuickFixN implementations that work with Bloomberg.

Bloomberg support is not very helpful. The best what I could learn from them is this statement:

"When you send a FIX logon message it should be encrypted using our certificate."

Fix specification has very little information about encryption and I could not find the field it mentions (SecureData) in QuickFix source.

So I guess, my question is, is it common (or possible) to use SSL to encrypt messages and send them over unencrypted connection. Or did I just completely misunderstand what Bloomberg support is telling me.

Thanks,
Oleg

From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of Grant Birchmeier
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:38 PM
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Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages


Do you mean SSH?


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <oleg at stinga.hr> wrote:
Hi,

This is my first FIX and QuickFIX project. I've created a server/acceptor
and client/initiator and everything seems to work.

Now, we received a request for message encryption.  I've looked at the
QuickFIX source and it looks like the encryption method is hardcoded to
NONE.

Does QuickFIX/N supports encrypted messages?


Thanks!


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