17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
I highly recommend Kerberos. It is available via anonymous ftp from athena-dist.mit.edu:/pub/ATHENA/kerberos (I believe -- they've changed the site around recently). Alternatively you can get CNS from Cygnus Support, which is a more up-to-date Kerberos release. NOTE: Kerberos is a network authentication system based upon DES and a secure server. It requires that the Kerberos server remain secure, but that tends not to be too much of a problem if you have some machine that you can lock away in a machine room somewhere. No useful information is sent over the net in clear-text, so it solves your sniffer problem as well. Hope this helps. -derek