Using SSL
Whenever the RabbitMQ broker is exposed to the Internet, it is highly advisable to protect the connections by using the SSL library.
RabbitMQ does not implement SSL by itself, but it uses the certificate mechanism of the given language, Erlang for the server and Java, .NET, or whatever for the clients.
Here, we will see how to have a basic protection with SSL, that is, how to encrypt the connections from the RabbitMQ clients to the broker.
This is enough to avoid simple security attacks. With no SSL, usernames and passwords are sent just in clear through the network.
Getting ready
The current example has the following prerequisites:
- A Linux OS hosting the RabbitMQ broker
- openssl Linux package
- The latest Erlang distribution—at least R14B
- Java ...
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