On Dec 6, 2003, at 2:49 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:

> Cool. How secure is this? Can the work firewall see etc?

The password negotiation is encrypted, but the content is not. It's 
possible to tunnel everything through SSL, in order to get the whole 
thing strongly encrypted. I don't bother to do this because the stuff I 
send back and forth is not sensitive enough to justify that level of 
paranoia.

Besides, I think anyone with the ability to do a man-in-the-middle 
attack is already sitting at the network on one end or the other and 
can get at sensitive information with a screwdriver at 2:00 in the 
morning, unless you encrypt your hard drive.



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