[IRCServices Coding] 2 feature requests

[Martin Pels]

Good idea, but that won't work if Services is on a different machine than
the IRCd :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yusuf Iskenderoglu" <uhc0 at rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To: "IRC Services Coding Mailing List"
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices Coding] 2 feature requests


> Hi,
>
> Link your services using 127.0.0.1; no packet is sent to the network, no
> additional CPU time will be required to encrypt/decrypt via ssl.
>
> Fast. Efficient.
>
> Regards;
> yusuf
>
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 12:02, Martin Pels wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On our network we're currently taking a look on how we can make things
more
> > secure. And while doiung that we came up with a couple of ideas to
improve
> > IRCServices.
> >
> > One of the things we did is link all of our servers through SSL, and
gave
> > clients the option to connect through SSL as well. Now the only thing on
our
> > net that isn't connected through SSL is Services.
> > Are there any plans to add this to IRCServices? I didn't see anything
about
> > it in the TODO.
> >
> > The second idea is about the encrypted passwords. As stated in the
> > IRCServices documentation SENDPASS and GETPASS won't work with
encryption
> > enabled because of the way md5 works.
> > This introduces the problem that users will have to contact an Oper in
case
> > they lose their password.
> > Would it be possible to, when encryption is enabled, change the
behaviour of
> > SENDPASS so that it won't send the user's password (because this is not
> > possible), but generate a new random password for the user and send that
to
> > the user's e-mail address instead?
> >
> > Grtz,
> > Rodecker
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