[nanomsg] Re: Internet facing applications

  • From: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:55:18 +0200

On 22/08/13 15:09, Jan Dvořák wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:27:39 +0200 Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For starters I would propose following limits:

- max message size
- max number of peers
- max total size of subscriptions

Anything else you can think of?

Maximum number of subscriptions *per peer*, or otherwise it's wide open
to a trivial denial of service attack.

Right. That's on the publisher side.

Otherwise these should suffice to signal users that security is a concern.
By the way, XREP will be included, right?

nanomsg's equivalent to XREP is "nn_socket (AF_SP_RAW, NN_REP);"

Martin


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