On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 12:21:19PM +0800, Akbar Ali wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to encrypt passwords for Outlook & FTP? I ran a sniffing > tool & it was able to detect the passwords for POP3 clients,FTP & HTTP > requests.!! Can someone tel me how to encrypt passwords for these tools? > Thanx in advance.
SSL is your best friend. Find some POP3 server that accepts SSL connections. Outlook already has SSL support built in. For HTTP, there's HTTP over SSL, and servers like Apache with the mod_ssl module will provide this. For FTP...that's a big problem. There are very few freely-available Windows client programs that understand FTP over SSL or SSH/SCP/SFTP. They exist, but unfortunately, a lot of them are unusable for the average "dummy" non-specialist who's never seen or heard of a command line.x -- Rafael R. Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, Inter.Net Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5CDA17D8
