[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (JGRP-2274) ASYM_ENCRYPT: deprecate sign_msgs

[Nick Sawadsky (Jira)]

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Nick Sawadsky commented on JGRP-2274:
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[~belaban] Realizing that it may take some time to add TLS support to TCP and TCP_NIO2, I have picked this up again, and am tackling the work to support the CBC cipher mode in Encrypt. I entered an Enhancement ticket for this (JGRP-2386) and am preparing a pull request. 



> ASYM_ENCRYPT: deprecate sign_msgs
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JGRP-2274
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JGRP-2274
>             Project: JGroups
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>            Reporter: Bela Ban
>            Assignee: Bela Ban
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 4.0.12
>
>
> In {{ASYM_ENCRYPT}}, signing messages means that the checksum of an encrypted message is computed and used together with the secret key of the sender to sign the message. On the receiver side, the public key of the sender is used to validate the signature.
> However, this is redundant, as decryption of a message will fail if the contents have been changed.
> If needed, signing of messages can be done in a separate protocol.



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