.. title: Requiring Encryption in Apache Qpid
.. slug: requiring-encryption-in-apache-qpid
.. date: 2016-04-05 06:12:48 UTC
.. updated: 2016-04-05 06:12:48 UTC
.. tags: qpid
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I configured requiring encryption in Apache Qpid (C++ broker) by adding the
following line to */etc/qpid/qpidd.conf* file and restarting the broker

::

    require-encryption=yes

Later when I used ``qpid-stat`` I got an error message

::

    $ qpid-stat -q -b user@password/localhost:5672
    Failed: AuthenticationFailure - Error in sasl_client_start (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism available

After following a mailing list post to a JIRA to a
`Review Board entry <https://reviews.apache.org/r/7207/>`_ I found that when
broker requires a secure TLS connection then the connection string must use
``amqps`` protocol instead of ``amqp`` like so

::

    $ qpid-stat -q -b amqps://user@password/localhost:5672

I was using version 0.34 of both broker and client.