[MUD-Dev] strong encryption for authentication

[Daniel.Harman at barclayscapital.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Clift [mailto:fclift at verio.net]
 
> I'm considering allowing ssh based connections to my mud.  I like
> the idea of no plain-text going to/from the mud.  I would have to
> either continue allowing 'telnet' based access, or provide some
> kind of proxy (though it would have to be done right -- ban lists,
> seeing where people are connected from, etc, is important).

Just as an aside, the CPU overhead for having many encrypted
connections probably shouldn't be overlooked. A colleague did
something similar for a system, and we had to go hardware based to
keep performance up.

Dan
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