Design Docs for the London Stock Exchange [pdf]

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36 pointscgoodmac5 comments

sounds secure enough (for the 2nd Millennium ):

3.5 Connection security

Following the FIX standard, Message Authentication is not supported on Millennium Exchange. However, each CompID is assigned a password on creation that must be specified in the first logon message. Participants are required to change the default password on first logon.

What's the problem?

like sending password instead of something like a hash of concatenation of the password with current date/time.

You would think they'd have a better way to manage info from not leaking out.

These aren't design docs.

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