On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:16:10AM -0600, Steven Hazel wrote:
> > Oh, forgot something - anyone got any thoughts on some form of
> > authentication mechanism built into FCP, to support non-local but
> > legal connections?  I can guarantee that people will want this
> > sooner or later so we may as-well make provision for it in the
> > protocol now.

> The way to do this, if we want to do it, is to accept remote
> connections via SSL, with ssh-style authentication.

I don't like SSL much - but for this I can see the argument (thou
tunneling thou ssh would be better - if somewhat non-standard). Again
this is an external item. If someone wants to write a FCP forwarding
proxy (accepting SSL and passing the data onto 127.0.0.1) - feel free.

AGL

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