{{Quickfixn}} quickfix/n and SSL

[Grant Birchmeier]

Ah, that makes more sense.  Thanks for filling me in.

It seems this SSL feature is being demanded by more and more people.
We'll have to consider working on it for one of the next releases.

I think someone on the list was already working on it, so maybe it's
not far off.

-Grant


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:27 AM, treffeisen ltd.
<director at treffeisen.net> wrote:
> Grant,
>         They said that they don't support the way stunnel is doing the
> connection using a public key. They use private key with pass phrase only.
> That is for the VCON (or FAXT) application in Bloomberg. I don't know of all
> the other interfaces they have.  I will also contact the guys from stunnel,
> maybe there is a way to use it with this private key and pass phrase method.
> Thanks,
>         Anmatr.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Birchmeier [mailto:gbirchmeier at connamara.com]
> Sent: 14 February 2013 23:36
> To: director at treffeisen.net; Mailing list for QuickFIX/n
> Cc: Mike Gatny
> Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} quickfix/n and SSL
>
> I don't follow.  That doesn't seem to make sense to me.
>
> When you use Stunnel, you're just wrapping your connection in SSL.
> From Bloomberg's side, you just look like regular old SSL.  They don't
> know if you're using Stunnel or not.
>
> Disclaimer: I haven't used Stunnel myself, but I'm pretty sure that's
> how it's supposed to work.
>
> -Grant
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:25 PM, treffeisen ltd.
> <director at treffeisen.net> wrote:
>> It turns out that stunnel is not supported by Bloomberg anymore ... back
> to
>> the drawing board.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com
>> [mailto:quickfixn-bounces at lists.quickfixn.com] On Behalf Of treffeisen
> ltd.
>> Sent: 13 February 2013 19:10
>> To: 'Mike Gatny'; 'Mailing list for QuickFIX/n'
>>
>>
>> Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} quickfix/n and SSL
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you Mike, I try to get down that route!
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Mike Gatny [mailto:mgatny at connamara.com]
>> Sent: 13 February 2013 13:32
>> To: director at treffeisen.net
>> Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} quickfix/n and SSL
>>
>>
>>
>> Until we implement built-in ssl (like qf/j has), the recommended way to do
>> this is with stunnel (same goes for qf/c++).  Take a look at the stunnel
>> docs, it is pretty easy to set up.
>>
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