RE: [Quickfix-developers] Encryption

[Jon D. <jd...@Li...>]

Gary,

The thing is, we may not want to encrypt everything. Our main concern is =
encrypting authentication data and a few
other things.=20

Our main implementation will be sending out our Market Makers prices to =
third party vendors with speed
in mind, so ecrypting everything is not a good idea unless you think =
vendors products like stunnel or=20
the various Cisco hardware encryption techniques will not cause that =
much of an overhead.

JD

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Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:14 PM
To: Jon Dahl
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Subject: Re: [Quickfix-developers] Encryption



Since quickfix and one of our counterparties don't support FIX =
encryption,
we use stunnel to provide encryption over the communication protocol.  =
It
basically sets up an SSL connection between the two FIX engies.  It =
doesn't
require any changes at all to our implementation of our quickfix based
engine.

Gary Mui
Prescient Markets, Inc         914-989-3118  (W)
445 Hamilton Avenue          914-422-3693  (F)
White Plains, NY 10601

Please visit us at http://www.cpmarket.com


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Hello all,

I have a question about encryption in general with FIX and somewhat with
quickfix.

Is anyone encrptying their FIX messages right now and how has the =
process
been of
encrypting and decryting from either side?

Any gotchas out there with the FIX protocol and excryption?

I was thinking about using the OpenSSL library so we can write one code
base (for the most part)
and run it on *NIX and Windows. Anyone use the same scenario.

Will quickfix offer any encryption plugins in the future?


Sorry if this is somewhat off topic.

Thanks,

JD


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