[icecast] a new directory service

Ethan Butterfield primus at veris.org
Thu Oct 18 02:49:16 UTC 2001



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On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:42:57PM -0600, Jack Moffitt wrote:

> It would take a bit of effort.  And it would also be totally useless.
> What benefit would it provide?  You're publishing the information
> publically anyway :)

A fully-encrypted connection would nearly eliminate the possibility of a 
man-in-the-middle attack either hijacking the session or surreptitiously 
switching bits mid-stream and changing the traffic on the fly.

- -- 

 "Nothing's the same anymore."
     - Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair, Babylon-5, "Chrysalis"
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