> Hmm. What would be the advantage of that ?
> I mean, to do anything serious with it (ie connection to the outside
> world) you'd need to connect it via serial cable to some PC or
> Workstation. And that neccessarily involves a daemon to handle the
> connection between the PalmPilot and the rest of the world. So we can as
> well build the SSL-capabilities into the daemon und run the connection
> over the serial line unencrypted, since it is rather unlikely that
> someone would eavesdrop on a serial line which is only a couple of feet
> long (provided you are not in full paranoia mode, that is)(Anyone read
> the tempest document from mskuhn ?).
PalmOS supports PPP connections. These are pure TCP/IP. If I was
going to perform a sync between my PalmPilot and desktop PC I would
want the connection authenticated and encrypted.
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The Kermit Project * Columbia University
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