[rabbitmq-discuss] SSL between cluster hosts supported ?

Wed Feb 15 09:57:16 GMT 2012

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:51, Marek Majkowski <majek04 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 20:51, Charles <cshtreck at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I've got rabbitmq 2.7.1 w/ Erlang R15B and I'd like to know if encrypted/ssl  sessions between rabbit hosts in a cluster is supported.
>> I'd appreciate a link to any docs on how to configure that.
>> SSL from client to server is working btw.
>
> RabbitMQ clustering uses built-in Erlang clustering mechanisms.
>
> As far as I know, erlang clustering doesn't allow have any
> encryption support. Google says:
>
>    http://www.trapexit.org/Distributed_erlang_using_ssl_through_firewalls
>
> and
>
>  http://stackoverflow.com/a/891058/496285
>
> So basically, you can hack erlang or do it on the IP layer. Both options
> are nontrivial.

I'm wrong. There's a third, built-in, thing:

   http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/ssl/ssl_distribution.html

But I'm afraid I don't have much expertise in that.

Marek