Technical Guidelines
These guidelines have been produced by our Global Technical Committee and its working groups to address a variety of topics relating to electronic messaging and message standards.
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Information Security
Technical resources and implementation notes addressing security when using the FIX Protocol.
The documents provided below have been reviewed or produced by the Global Technical Committee’s Information Security Subcommittee.
FIX Security White Paper v1.9 700.29 KB 3173 downloads July 23, 2017
The "FIX Security White Paper (v1.9)" is intended to provide FIX Trading Community members with some of the common questions and answers regarding computer and network security when using FIX. Its scope...
FIXS Stunnel User Guide for FIX Applications 133.14 KB 1848 downloads August 18, 2017
FIX-over-TLS (FIXS) Stunnel User Guide for FIX Applications - this guide is intended to allow anyone to get started with FIXS, whilst the FIXS specification is applicable to all TLS implementations. Updated:...
PGP-DES_MD5 and PEM-DES-MD5 Overview 25.50 KB 608 downloads February 17, 1996
This application note addresses Authentication, Confidentiality and Integrity for data transmitted between two parties. It describes the protocol for Key Exchange, Data Encryption of selected fields in...
PGP-DES-MD5 and PEM-DES-MD5 Implementation 224.00 KB 423 downloads June 2, 2017
The files included in this distribution are an implementation of the FIX security protocol. Written and contributed by Morgan Stanley in 1995 and 1996. (TAR, 224KB) [May 24, 1996] ...Stunnel Universal SSL Wrapper
Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can be used to securely wrap unencrpyted FIX traffic. The Stunnel source code is not a complete product — you still require a functioning SSL library such as OpenSSL or SSLeay in order to compile stunnel. This means that stunnel can support whatever (and only) that which your SSL library can, without making any changes in the Stunnel code. The Stunnel source code is available under the GNU General Public License.
Information Security Presentations
Encryption Working Group Presentation - July 24, 2000 768.50 KB 394 downloads July 24, 2000
This document has been revised to correct errors in the presentation and add additional information relating to CA infrastructure addressed at the meeting. ...
FIX Security Presentation 185.50 KB 767 downloads February 14, 2017
Presentation about how FIX addresses security. ...Session
The following document describes the the proper way to conduct a multicast session for market data distribution using FIX message formats
Multicast Recommended Practices 539.58 KB 999 downloads January 14, 2006
This document describes the the proper way to conduct a multicast session for market data distribution using FIX message formats. ...
Time Precision Technical Addendum 580.93 KB 4353 downloads February 24, 2017
Time Precision Technical Addendum. This Technical Addendum addresses the time precision granularity by extending the FIX data type for timestamps to picoseconds. The Technical Addendum is applicable...We also have recommended practices for 24×7 sessions.