Mersenne: Re: Security and Prime95/mprime

2000-03-03 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 04:46:30AM -0800, Paul Leyland wrote: George is an honorable man, I'm sure, and has not knowingly put in any loopholes. I'm equally sure that he's not infallible and that he will freely admit to this. Do *you* want to bet the security of your site even more than you are

Mersenne: Re: Security and Prime95/mprime

2000-03-02 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 02:01:24PM -0500, St. Dee wrote: Am I creating any security risks by running mprime on the firewall box? You shouldn't, since mprime doesn't deal with server sockets (only the occasional HTTP traffic to PrimeNet) at all. The only problem I can think of, is that it eats a