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From: Daniel.Harman@barclayscapital.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:56:12 +0100
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Clift [mailto:fclift@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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