Tunnel everything over ssh =) - Josh Reynolds On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote:
> 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 > >
