From: jpc1@lobster.doc.ic.ac.uk (Justin Cormack)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi
Subject: Re: Secure Message Passing ??
Date: 1 Oct 1998 13:28:00 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Message-Id: <6v0010$6s6$1@magpie.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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In article <6uqbms$sph$1@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>, gis86572@cis.nctu.edu.tw (JazzRabbit) writes:
>   Does any implementation of secure message passing system ??
>   Like MPI or PVM, but the messages are Encrypted as passing .
> 
>   Is it important that the message passed in ciphertext in parallel
>   processing system ?
> 

MPICH 1.1.1 supports using ssh rather than rsh for setting up connections, so
that traffic is encrypted.

Justin Cormack