Re: NetReg: secure transmission against POP/IMAP/FTP server

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From: David Meuleman (dmeuleman@defiance.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 31 2003 - 15:09:17 CST


If you authenticate against a POP, IMAP, or FTP server, everything would
be in plain text. But this is no different than using those same services
 from your desktop.

You can set up POP, IMAP, and FTP to use secure connections. You would
have to write that into NetReg's authentication routine for the protocol
you choose to use (perhaps somebody has already done this, I don't know).
Or write an authentication routine using SSH. If you do this, please
publish it so I can use it.

Dave

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:42:31 -0500, Kenneth Hirsh <ken@law.duke.edu> wrote:

> I know that one can configure Apache with SSL so the user session with
> the registration page is encrypted. However, I do not know enough about
> the Perl libraries to answer this question: Is the authentication
> routine Netreg then runs against the POP, IMAP or FTP server encrypted
> or in clear text? If the latter, this would seem to make this a
> worrisome process.
> Ken Hirsh
>
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