Re: Encrypting traffic between Hector client and Cassandra server

2012-01-31 Thread aaron morton
There was a recent post about performance that also talked about using Open VPN to encrypt traffic from clients to server http://www.mail-archive.com/user@cassandra.apache.org/msg20058.html I've not looked at thrift encryption. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaro

Re: Encrypting traffic between Hector client and Cassandra server

2012-01-31 Thread Maxim Potekhin
Hello, do you see any value in having a web service over cassandra, with actual client-clients talking to it via https/ssl? This way the cluster can be firewalled and therefore protected, plus you get decent auth/auth right there. Maxim On 1/31/2012 5:21 PM, Xaero S wrote: I have been try

Encrypting traffic between Hector client and Cassandra server

2012-01-31 Thread Xaero S
I have been trying to figure out how to secure/encrypt the traffic between the client (Hector) and the Cassandra Server. I looked at this link https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-106 But since thrift sits on a layer after Hector, i am wondering how i can get Hector to use the right Thrift