Ah, I was not aware of that :) Good to know indeed.
Derek
Andrew Rowley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Note that inSORS nodes don't support Rijindael as far as I know, so you will
> have to use DES.
>
> Andrew :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jeremy Mann
> Sent: 29 March 2006 17:28
> To: 'Derek Piper'
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] vic and rat encryption
>
>
>
> Derek Piper said:
>
>> You may be better off using Rjindael encryption, which is normally
>>used on AG Venues when setting the 'encryption' option in the venue
>>server config.
>> A Rjindael key is passed to VIC and RAT as 'Rjindael/passphrase'
>>where passphrase should be something random and unguessable, and
>>distributed to those needing the key to enter manually. There's a
>>program for Debian called 'pwgen' that I've used to generate a
>>passphrase before. For manually entering the key, you would probably
>>just disable the venue encryption and manually key it in. For a DES
>>key, just use a passphrase that doesn't start with a string 'Rjindael/'.
>> Of course you can also use certificates to secure a venue too, so not
>>just anyone can enter and obtain the encryption key.
>
>
> The certificate security can not be done because half the participants are
> inSORS nodes. I'll try out this pwgen and test it out. Thanks!
>
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