ZMQ_NULL(7)

💖 ZMQ_NULL(7) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to zmq_null — the manual page for the NULL security mechanism. yes it's called NULL and yes that's literally the whole point. sit down, this one's short and sweet 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

zmq_null — no security or confidentiality 💅

like. none. zero. nada. it's giving "we're just gonna trust everyone" energy 😭

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

The NULL mechanism is defined by the ZMTP 3.0 specification:

http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:23

and lowkey the most important part: this is the default security mechanism for ZeroMQ sockets. so if you didn't go out of your way to pick something else, congrats, this is what you've been running the whole time 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• zmq_plain(7) — when you want an actual username and password moment
• zmq_curve(7) — the fancy cryptographic one, main character energy fr
• zmq(7) — the parent page, the icon, the blueprint 👑

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

This page was written by the 0MQ community. To make a change please read the 0MQ Contribution Policy at:

http://www.zeromq.org/docs:contributing

(they're lovely, go say hi 🌈)

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⚠️ bestie warning: no security, no confidentiality. that's not a bug, that's the entire spec. if you need either of those things, this is not the mechanism for you, periodt. 💀

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and that's the whole vibe check ✨ this was 0MQ 4.3.5, dated 10/09/2023 — mwah, tysm for reading, ily, go read zmq_curve(7) if you want the spicy one 🧚💖