proxy servers

[Peter Murray]

--On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 8:13 PM -0700 "Richard L. Goerwitz III"
<richard at goon.stg.brown.edu> wrote: 

> As I've discussed in an earlier posting, these proxy services all use
> plain-text authentication, which is unacceptable for many institutions
> (including mine).

We put the actual authentication (and the proxy config file) on an SSL
encrypted server.  This isn't ideal, but at least the password is sent
encrypted over the wire.  It is still in plain-text in the memory of the web
server, but it is never written to disk.


Peter
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