Re: [gomd-devel] <IRC> interesting IRC chat session about gomd...

[Matthias Rechenburg]

Hi Roeles,

On Sonntag 28 September 2003 09:27, address@hidden wrote:
> > Thats a pretty novel authentication scheme, im curious what algorithm you
> > suggest to use for the encryption and how long should te random phrase
> > be? Crypto's not my strong point but ive seen a lot of things do it wrong
> > and wouldnt want that to happen to gomd. If i was a evil (rather than
> > good :) ) hacker i'd be poring over every line of a daemon i knew would
> > be running on HPC's. Think of the bragging rights of saying you owned a N
> > node cluster. Eek!
>
> Exactly my idear :)
> The algorithm I would like to use is basically any (safe) algorithm that is
> available in both openssl as java. Also, I am going to learn about aes
> encryption (used for openssh for example) next week, so I might be able to
> write some code for that :)

good, a "tought of" security concept is welcome. As soon as the users
will find out about the tons of functionality of the gomd they will ask
about security for sure.

>
> > I do like the overall scheme though
> >
> > Best Regards
> > -jc
>
> cheers,
>
> Roel "roeles" Baardman

have fun,

Matt
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