With more and more internet based services becoming part of peoples lives, there is even more targets for attackers who are looking to get sensitive data. In the past these types of attacks still happened, but there was not as many attacks as today and when they happened they were kept secret. Sometimes these data breaches have allowed attackers to gather unencrypted passwords or credit card numbers. Lately if you have been paying attention to tech or even mainstream media you might have seen a few stories about data breaches. The following post had originally appeared on Benjamin Cane’s Blog on February 18th, 2014 at Sending redis traffic through an SSL tunnel with stunnel. Naturally, this is the Do-It-Yourself hardcore approach, so if you want to have Redis and SSL without the heavy lifting, check out our plans and Redis clients that natively support SSL.
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The following article explains how to set up a secure (read authenticated and encrypted) communication channel between your Redis client and server using stunnel. There are several ways you could go about that, such as firewalling your Redis or using spiped, but (post- Heartbleed) SSL is still one of my favorites. the AUTH command) only gets you so far and in some cases you need something a little stronger. What do you do if you want to secure access to your Redis? Plain password authentication (i.e. Securing Redis Client and Server with Stunnel
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