Coda File System

File transfers in the clear?

From: Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull_at_sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:27:18 +0900
>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Bernat <abernat_at_zathras.net> writes:

    Drew> I was doing some packet sniffing on my home network this
    Drew> morning, and I noticed that the coda file transfers
    Drew> (server->client at least) are done in the clear. Is there
    Drew> any way to do some sort of encryption?

For your application of (it would seem) a point-to-point connection
from outside your LAN, an ssh tunnel is what I would suggest.  You
have to be careful about the routing setup though because coda doesn't
like multihomed servers.

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Received on 2001-02-28 22:33:11