I had also posted this last month:
http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Re-SSL-amp-Streaming-1567-td6196693.html
"I only want to encrypt data from region 1 < -- > region 2 where a vpn
is not possible... data communication in the same rack for example, is
on a private network and shouldn't be encrypted "
-sd
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sasha Dolgy <sdolgy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cheers Aaron ...
>
> As for security, I had looked at the SSL option a month ago maybe ...
> For us, this would be a great feature, except, by implementing the VPN
> tunnels on EC2, we've found a decrease in latency between cassandra
> nodes. As mentioned in another post, I'm not sure why, and wont start
> to try and debug ... happy with this accidental finding. So..
> although the security enhancement is very good, it wouldn't help me on
> the latency side and I suspect it would add a few more milliseconds...
> which is important when shuttling data from APAC to NA and Europe ..
>
> -sd
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