https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-106 seems to be the right way to go.... but the cassandra server needs to support too which we might want to add....
Regards, </VJ> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Chris Marino <ch...@vcider.com> wrote: > Hello, is there any consensus on how to secure client/cluster > communications??? > > I'm running an 8 node cluster across EC2 regions. I'm running inter-node > encryption and I want to encrypt the traffic from the clients as well. > > My options seem to be: > > Have the client connect to only one node and encrypt that one connection > with OpenVPN/stunnel (or something similar). Or, set up an encrypted tunnel > from the client to each node. Is there a client library that could take care > of this for me?? > > Setting up tunnels to each node is a major pain, but pointing the client to > only one node is going to kill my performance. I'm running 4 nodes in each > EC2 region with one client in each. Maybe I could connect the client only to > the local nodes, which should simplify things a bit, but I was wondering if > anyone had any experience with this or could suggest something that might be > better. > > Please let me know. > Thanks. > CM >