Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-28 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Martin Spott wrote: > I know, this discussion is barely coupled to ongoing development, but > because I like to participate in creating admirable plans, I don't want > to miss it :-)) Yup, there's nothing like designing something there is little chance you will implement yourself ;). > "Buc

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-27 Thread Martin Spott
I know, this discussion is barely coupled to ongoing development, but because I like to participate in creating admirable plans, I don't want to miss it :-)) "Buchanan, Stuart" wrote: > 2) Account holders have a key generated based on their call-sign (*). This > is transmitted with the MP positi

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-27 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 06:32, Julien Pierru wrote: > A few questions arise, first what do you guys think about an authentication > system, second what would be the best way of implementing it within FG and > third would it be limited to be used by the tracking system or as a way of > moderating th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Buchanan, Stuart
--- Julien Pierru wrote: > After a few month of testing the tracker for flights on CVS MP servers > has > proven quite reliable. > I think it would be a great feature to be made available to the entire > FG > community. However with a production use comes the problem of positively > identifying a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Martin Spott
Christian Mayer wrote: > I'd be more worried about an outdating mechanism that throws out all > callsigns that weren't used for a long time. If the MP server verifies every token agains the directory server, like I had in mind, then you always have the ability to expire every single token in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Christian Mayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Patterson schrieb: > As an idea, could we add a section to say what ip addresses range to > expect the packets to orginate from. This would help protect the key > against being brute forced. This way we may not even need to do the > public/priva

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread George Patterson
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 11:50 +, Martin Spott wrote: > "Julien Pierru" wrote: > > > A few questions arise, first what do you guys think about an authentication > > system, second what would be the best way of implementing it within FG and > > third would it be limited to be used by the tracking

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear MP authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Martin Spott
"Julien Pierru" wrote: > A few questions arise, first what do you guys think about an authentication > system, second what would be the best way of implementing it within FG and > third would it be limited to be used by the tracking system or as a way of > moderating the mp servers. Yes, I am 'pr