zmq_curve - secure authentication and confidentiality
The CURVE mechanism defines a mechanism for secure authentication and
confidentiality for communications between a client and a server. CURVE is
intended for use on public networks. The CURVE mechanism is defined by this
document:
http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:25.
A socket using CURVE can be either client or server, at any moment, but not
both. The role is independent of bind/connect direction.
A socket can change roles at any point by setting new options. The role affects
all zmq_connect and zmq_bind calls that follow it.
To become a CURVE server, the application sets the ZMQ_CURVE_SERVER option on
the socket, and then sets the ZMQ_CURVE_SECRETKEY option to provide the socket
with its long-term secret key. The application does not provide the socket
with its long-term public key, which is used only by clients.
To become a CURVE client, the application sets the ZMQ_CURVE_SERVERKEY option
with the long-term public key of the server it intends to connect to, or
accept connections from, next. The application then sets the
ZMQ_CURVE_PUBLICKEY and ZMQ_CURVE_SECRETKEY options with its client long-term
key pair.
If the server does authentication it will be based on the client’s long
term public key.
The standard representation for keys in source code is either 32 bytes of base
256 (binary) data, or 40 characters of base 85 data encoded using the Z85
algorithm defined by
http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:32.
The Z85 algorithm is designed to produce printable key strings for use in
configuration files, the command line, and code. There is a reference
implementation in C at
https://github.com/zeromq/rfc/tree/master/src.
For test cases, the client shall use this long-term key pair (specified as
hexadecimal and in Z85):
public:
BB88471D65E2659B30C55A5321CEBB5AAB2B70A398645C26DCA2B2FCB43FC518
Yne@$w-vo<fVvi]a<NY6T1ed:M$fCG*[IaLV{hID
secret:
7BB864B489AFA3671FBE69101F94B38972F24816DFB01B51656B3FEC8DFD0888
D:)Q[IlAW!ahhC2ac:9*A}h:p?([4%wOTJ%JR%cs
And the server shall use this long-term key pair (specified as hexadecimal and
in Z85):
public:
54FCBA24E93249969316FB617C872BB0C1D1FF14800427C594CBFACF1BC2D652
rq:rM>}U?@Lns47E1%kR.o@n%FcmmsL/@{H8]yf7
secret:
8E0BDD697628B91D8F245587EE95C5B04D48963F79259877B49CD9063AEAD3B7
JTKVSB%%)wK0E.X)V>+}o?pNmC{O&4W4b!Ni{Lh6
zmq_z85_encode(3)
zmq_z85_decode(3)
zmq_setsockopt(3)
zmq_null(7)
zmq_plain(7)
zmq(7)
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