Is it possible to imply encryption?

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Corlane
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Is it possible to imply encryption?

Post by Corlane » 2003-02-02 18:22

Is there any possibility to the thought of encrypting filetransfers/chats between DC++ clients?

pedxing
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give this a try

Post by pedxing » 2003-02-21 02:20

It may be possible to tunnel that kind of traffic thru ssl with stunnel. (http://www.stunnel.org)

The server would have to generate an SSL certificate and either have it signed or self sign it (depending on who you want to trust to ensure your privacy) and it would also have to be running stunnel. (or some other ssl tunneling software)

Stunnel and Openssl (http://www.openssl.org) are open source projects and released for free to the public. Anyone have any experience trying to set something like this up?

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Post by Splicer » 2003-02-21 04:26

Encryption would be a nice add on.

Though it may slow down transfers, depending on the encryption.

Triple des would be nice. :)

I haven't heard of anyone cracking that yet, though im not a security expert.

But I think alot of busts right now are plants in the network and not packet sniffers.
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Post by BSOD2600 » 2003-02-21 13:57

Not sure if encryption would serve any real purpose. The RIAA and its evil bots dont sniff your transfers off the wire, they simply get your filelist or do a search in the hub.

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