Re: Proposing gobby?

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:54 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   I subscribe the good opinion about Gobby, generally, but the security
> of its network protocol leaves a lot to be desired.

Agreed: whilst I'd like to use Gobby, the fact that the data is sent in
plain-text isn't good.  Some way of authenticating the servers/peers are
who they say they are (think ssh host key fingerprints), and encrypted
transport streams would be required before I'd use it for work.

Ross
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