Roland, I was also interested in this for very similar reasons. I was planning on working on this after tackling some of the thrift build clean and transport requests i've been working on. I created CASSANDRA-3125 to help track the progress of this a little easier
-Jake On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Roland Gude wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any progress on this topic? > I would really like to see such a library. > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: matthew hawthorne [mailto:mhawtho...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. Dezember 2010 20:07 > An: dev@cassandra.apache.org > Betreff: interest in creating a "cassandra-gossip" library? > > hello, > > I'm starting a project at my day job to deploy a gossip protocol > implementation. part of my initial work is to evaluate existing > implementations. > > being loosely familiar with Cassandra, I read > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip and have looked > over the related code a bit. > > is there interest in breaking out the gossip-related portions of > Cassandra into a library that could be reused by other projects? I > work on a team that is ready and willing to contribute heavily. we'd > just need some guidance as to how to structure the Cassandra > subcomponent(s) and properly integrate them with the builds, tests, > etc. > > here are a few examples of functionality we're looking to add: > > 1) hierarchical state - our use case is cross data center gossip, > where we don't want every node in the 2 clusters communicating, but do > want a node from cluster1 to send a summary of the cluster's state to > cluster2, and vice versa. essentially I'm talking about rolling up > the state of multiple nodes into a single "virtual" node > > 2) mutual authentication - nodes verifying the identity of other nodes > before gossipping > > 3) encryption - encrypted traffic, especially for the cross data center case > > any opinions on this? thanks in advance for any feedback! > > -matt >
