zmq_gssapi(7)

zmq_gssapi(7)

ØMQ Manual - ØMQ/4.1.7

Name

zmq_gssapi - secure authentication and confidentiality

Synopsis

The GSSAPI mechanism defines a mechanism for secure authentication and confidentiality for communications between a client and a server using the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSSAPI). The GSSAPI mechanism can be used on both public and private networks. GSSAPI itself is defined in IETF RFC-2743: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2743. The ZeroMQ GSSAPI mechanism is defined by this document: http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:38.

Client and server roles

A socket using GSSAPI can be either client or server, but not both.

To become either a GSSAPI client or server, the application sets the ZMQ_GSSAPI_PRINCIPAL option to provide the socket with the name of the pricipal for whom GSSAPI credentials should be acquired.

To become a GSSAPI server, the application addtionally sets the ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVER option on the socket.

To become a GSSAPI client, the application sets additionally sets the ZMQ_GSSAPI_SERVICE_PRINCIPAL option to the name of the principal of the server to which it intends to connect.

Optional encryption

By default, the GSSAPI mechanism will encrypt all communications between client and server. If encryption is not desired (e.g. on private networks), the client and server applications can disable it by setting the ZMQ_GSSAPI_PLAINTEXT option. Both the client and server must set this option to the same value.

See also

zmq_setsockopt(3) zmq_null(7) zmq_curve(7) zmq(7)

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