It's been suggested, but it's not very useful w/o having encryption for Thrift as well (in case a client has to fail over to the cross-country Cassandra nodes). So using a secure VPN makes the most sense to me.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Ben Standefer <b...@simplegeo.com> wrote: > Are there any plans or talks of adding SSL/encryption support between > Cassandra nodes? This would make setting up secure cross-country Cassandra > clusters much easier, without having to setup a secure overlay network. > MySQL supports this in it's replication. > > -Ben > > > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Michael Pearson <mjpear...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hey Stu, >> >> I've been using 0.6.3's SimpleAuthenticator without a hitch (just >> had to figure out the daemon args >> -Dpasswd.properties=conf/passwd.properties >> -Daccess.properties=conf/access.properties) - why do you ask? >> >> -michael >> >> -- >> http://www.github.com/mjpearson >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/mjpearson >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Stu Hood <stu.h...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> > Hello out there, >> > >> > If you are running Cassandra 0.6.*, and are using Cassandra's >> > authentication (IAuthenticator/SimpleAuthenticator), I'd love to hear about >> > it! >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Stu Hood >> > @stuhood >> > Architecture Software Developer >> > Rackspace Hosting >> > >> > > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
