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encryption available for agent-server communication?

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list Min Shi · Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:05:52 -0700 ·
Greetings!

On 1984 port, is the communication between agent and server encrypted?

 
Thanks!

Min
list Henrik Størner · Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:36:22 +0100 ·
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:05:52AM -0700, Shi, Min wrote:
On 1984 port, is the communication between agent and server encrypted?
No.

It's been requested once or twice before, but not enough for me to look
at implementing it. I don't think it would be terribly difficult to 
implement support for running the communication over an SSL encrypted
connection - either built into the hobbitd daemon, or through a proxy-
like front-end to hobbitd. Hobbit already has support for talking to
an SSL enabled service (in the bbtest-net tool), so I have some
experience with how the OpenSSL library works.


Regards,
Henrik