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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Chris.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My impression, after contacting them, was that Bloomberg does not use any tunneling. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Are you saying that you know of an installation where they use it?<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If so, that will greatly simplify things for me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Oleg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com [mailto:quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chris Busbey<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 14, 2012 3:07 PM<br><b>To:</b> Mailing list for QuickFIX/n<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Oleg<br><br>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 <a href="http://stunnel.org">stunnel.org</a> for stunnel documentation. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>Chris.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <<a href="mailto:oleg@stinga.hr" target="_blank">oleg@stinga.hr</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Bloomberg support is not very helpful. The best what I could learn from them is this statement:<br><br>"When you send a FIX logon message it should be encrypted using our certificate."<br><br>Fix specification has very little information about encryption and I could not find the field it mentions (SecureData) in QuickFix source.<br><br>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.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Oleg<br><br>From: <a href="mailto:quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com">quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com">quickfixn-bounces@lists.quickfixn.com</a>] On Behalf Of Grant Birchmeier<br>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:38 PM<br>To: Mailing list for QuickFIX/n<br>Subject: Re: {{Quickfixn}} Encrypted messages<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Do you mean SSH?<br><br><br>On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Oleg Vojvodić <<a href="mailto:oleg@stinga.hr">oleg@stinga.hr</a>> wrote:<br>Hi,<br><br>This is my first FIX and QuickFIX project. I've created a server/acceptor<br>and client/initiator and everything seems to work.<br><br>Now, we received a request for message encryption. I've looked at the<br>QuickFIX source and it looks like the encryption method is hardcoded to<br>NONE.<br><br>Does QuickFIX/N supports encrypted messages?<br><br><br>Thanks!<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Quickfixn mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Quickfixn@lists.quickfixn.com">Quickfixn@lists.quickfixn.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com" target="_blank">http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com</a><br><br><br><br>--<br>Grant Birchmeier<br>Connamara Systems, LLC<br>Made-To-Measure Trading Solutions.<br>Exactly what you need. No more. No less.<br><a href="http://connamara.com" target="_blank">http://connamara.com</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Quickfixn mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Quickfixn@lists.quickfixn.com">Quickfixn@lists.quickfixn.com</a><br><a href="http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com" target="_blank">http://lists.quickfixn.com/listinfo.cgi/quickfixn-quickfixn.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Chris Busbey<br>Connamara Systems, LLC<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>