I had also posted this last month: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Re-SSL-amp-Streaming-1567-td6196693.html
"I only want to encrypt data from region 1 < -- > region 2 where a vpn is not possible... data communication in the same rack for example, is on a private network and shouldn't be encrypted " -sd On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cheers Aaron ... > > As for security, I had looked at the SSL option a month ago maybe ... > For us, this would be a great feature, except, by implementing the VPN > tunnels on EC2, we've found a decrease in latency between cassandra > nodes. As mentioned in another post, I'm not sure why, and wont start > to try and debug ... happy with this accidental finding. So.. > although the security enhancement is very good, it wouldn't help me on > the latency side and I suspect it would add a few more milliseconds... > which is important when shuttling data from APAC to NA and Europe .. > > -sd
