How to enable TLS1.2 in Rserve

UpdatedAugust 14, 2022

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About two years back when I first took up the task of enabling TLS 1.2 in some of the components in our technology stack. it felt like a very tough job because of two major reasons listed below.

I belong to the fraternity of Front End Developers who are majorly known for their lack of in-depth knowledge of DevOps and backend.
There was a lack of proper documentation and I had to do a lot of googling around because most of the famous tech platforms cover very little about these less known topics or otherwise blame it on poor SEO measures taken by those bloggers who cover topics like this.

we can’t blame them because SEO is something that has more to do with front-end development than backend or DevOps.

I will be noting down a list of basic tasks to perform in order to enable TLS in Rserve. also, I will be adding more posts to give you an insight into some sub-topics i.e. (how to generate private/public key, how to test if tls1.2 is enabled, etc.).

P.S: Please note that these steps are for Rserve on Linux.

Here we go…..

Step 1: Generate a private key and self-signed certificate (i will be covering this in another post soon).

Step 2: install libssl-dev first in your Linux machine and then install Rserve, So Rserve is compiled with TLS support.

Step 3: Edit or Add /etc/Rserv.conf file, and following parameters.

remote enable
plaintext disable
encoding utf8
qap.tls.port // 6311 by default
tls.key
tls.cert
gid 1001
uid 1001
qap disable
maxinbuf 4194304

Step 4: Start Rserve. With this action, a server is created to listen to the TLS port.

Step 5: Run the following OpenSSL command to test

openssl s_client -connect localhost:6311 -tls1_2

This should help you successfully enable TLS 1.2 in your Rserve application. feel free to write to me or comment below in case you are facing any issues.

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