Design Docs for the London Stock Exchange [pdf]

[cgoodmac]

http://www.londonstockexchange.com/products-and-services/trading-services/guide-to-new-trading-system.pdf

[trhway]

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.

[ramchip → trhway]

What's the problem?

[trhway → ramchip]

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

[xufi → trhway]

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

[cheez]

These aren't design docs.