To facilitate secure communications, authorization and authentication, eXtremeDB Cluster Transport Layer security is implemented using Secure Sockets Layer (
TLS/SSL).OpenSSLwas chosen as one of the most widespread and well-recognizedTLSprotocol implementations.In order to use
OpenSSLnetworking in an application, the user system is required to have a localOpenSSLinstallation. TheOpenSSLheaders and the libraries must be available to the compiler.Please refer to the Network Communications page for details on implementing OpenSSL security.