{{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages

[Grant Birchmeier]

Ah, ok.  I'm fairly sure we don't support that at present.

(To be honest, I'm not terribly familiar with this feature of FIX myself.
 I suspect this may be related to field 98 in the logon message.)


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <oleg at stinga.hr> wrote:

> Sorry, I was not clear.
>
> Yes I understand that stunnel runs at our location.
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>
> What I am confused about is that they insist on FIX messages being
> encrypted. Not the connection itself.
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>
> 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
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> *To:* Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
> *Subject:* Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages
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> No, the tunnel would be completely on your end.  Stunnel is your SSH
> go-between.
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> 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.
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>
>
> -Grant
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <oleg at stinga.hr> wrote:
>
> Thanks Chris.
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>
>
> 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
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>
>
> *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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> *To:* Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
> *Subject:* Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages
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>
> 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.
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>
>
> Chris.
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> 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
> To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
> 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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