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Java Forum / First Aid / June 2005Encrypted NNTP ???
I was wondering if any one know if Comcast allows for encrypted communications from Outlook express to these news servers. I just ran a sniffer on my internal network and captured the traffic between my pc and the Giga news server when I updated the headers... Not to my surprise I saw that when OE was connecting to Giganews, the main user account and password were sent out on the wire as clear text.. I discovered this was also happening with outlook when I checked for email but I was able to enable SSL for the email sessions. I would like to do the same for these news servers.. J Sorry, wrong Thread. My Bad... J >I was wondering if any one know if Comcast allows for encrypted communications >from Outlook express to these news servers. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > J Interesting. My ISP does not require a username or password to access the newsgroups unless you are not on their network. Still worrying enough to warrant investigation. I had the same worry when I first found out my bank card's PIN is stored on the card itself and that anyone with a card reader and some time can extract it with little effort. Scary world we live in. On the topic of security : Does anyone have any good experiences with obfuscating some JAVA classes? I'm worried about local competitors because our courts don't really care about software copyright that much and I have to take some steps to prevent copying of my app becoming a walk in the park procedure. Regards -- Ewald Horn Business Manager NoFuss Solutions South Africa / Suid Afrika Tel : +27 (0)83 305 3556 Web : http://www.nofusspos.com Email / E-pos : ewald@nofusspos.com Ewald I tried retroguard, and that works fine on your own code. If you use third-party libraries bundled with your JAR, this may become complicated. Retroguard takes a JAR input, creates a JAR output. rgds Glenn > Interesting. My ISP does not require a username or password to access the > newsgroups unless you are not on their network. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Web : http://www.nofusspos.com > Email / E-pos : ewald@nofusspos.com > Ewald > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Glenn Thanks, it does get a little complicated with the libraries but nothing I can't handle. Regards -- Ewald Horn Business Manager NoFuss Solutions South Africa / Suid Afrika Tel : +27 (0)83 305 3556 Web : http://www.nofusspos.com Email / E-pos : ewald@nofusspos.com > From: "Ewald Horn" <info@nofusspos.com> > Does anyone have any good experiences with obfuscating some JAVA > classes? I'm worried about local competitors because our courts don't > really care about software copyright that much and I have to take some > steps to prevent copying of my app becoming a walk in the park > procedure. If you put your best software in an applet so that anybody on the net can download it any time they want, you're a stupid fool and don't deserve anybody's help. If you keep your best software on the server, making it usable by others via HTTP(JSP/Servlet/EJB) or RMI, but all that any remote user can see is the interface and its i/o behaviour, not the implementation, then what is the problem? Does your ISP lack proper security or what? Or are you running the server on your own personal Micro$uck Losedows system which is plagued with worm/trojan problems from InterShit Exploiter etc. and you can't afford a firewall as a separate box to protect your crappy server? Jammin Jay schrieb: > I just ran a sniffer on my internal network and captured the traffic between my > pc and the Giga news server when I updated the headers... Not to my surprise I [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > was able to enable SSL for the email sessions. I would like to do the same for > these news servers.. If the newsserver and your client support NNTP over SSL (snntp or nntps) you can use it. The default port is 563 for nntps instead of 119 for nntp. Jan Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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