Base Implementation

FioranoMQ versions 7.1 and upward support encryption. DES (Data Encryption Standards) is used as the default encryption algorithm. FioranoMQ intends to support more encryption algorithms in its future releases.
There are two types of encryption algorithms:

• secret key algorithms
• public key algorithms

In secret key algorithms, both the sender and the receiver need the same key for encryption and decryption. In public key algorithms, the public key is used for encryption that is published and the private key is used for decryption so that No secret information is exchanged. The private key is mathematically related to the public key. Theoretically it is possible to compute the private key based on the public key. To avoid easy computation of the private key by unauthorized third parties, the computation is made as complex as possible. DES is based on a secret key cryptography.
An advantage of the secret key cryptography compared to public key cryptography is the faster speed of computation. Therefore, this method is recommended for bulk encryption and is commonly used over other methods. The encrypted text is compact.
The disadvantage of secret key cryptography is that the administration of keys can become complicated because key sharing.
In setups where imparting key information happens in a secure way, secret key cryptography can be used. Public key cryptography is supposed to make secret key cryptography more secure and is used when such a need exists.
The message encryption function uses the library cryptix.jar provided by Cryptix for generating keys as well as for encryption. This file comes bundled with the FioranoMQ installation. It can be found in the FIORANO_HOME%/extlib/cryptix directory of the FioranoMQ installation.