Technical detail
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol designed to allow the transmission of secure data over an insecure network. SSL makes use of digital certificates to enable authentication of the partner. It also uses encryption to prevent eavesdropping and hash functions to enable detection of tampering. SSL can be used on channels in WebSphere® MQ through new parameters introduced in WebSphere MQ V5.3. It can be used with both MCA channels for queue manager to queue manager communication and MQI channels for client applications connecting to a queue manager. A digital certificate must be obtained for each queue manager and each client user ID that wishes to communicate over an SSL secured channel.
