Re: [Quickfix-developers] Encryption

[Oren M. <ore...@ya...>]

Version 1.5 is the first version that theoritically would support encryption of fields, so you will probably be among the first to try this.  The first go at this was simply to allow you get/set encrypted values into fields.  You need to manually set the length before you send messages.  You will also need to decrypt the fields after you pull the data out since their are no encryption hooks at this point.  The other thing I think you have to do is manually indicate which fields you have encrypted etc.  I believe there is a field in the header for this.
 
We do plan on providing more integrated encryption in the future, but you should be able to do what you want with 1.5, even if it is a little ugly.

Jon Dahl <jd...@Li...> wrote:
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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