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To: Greg Wooledge <wooledge@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gary Moyer <garymoyer@xxxxxxxx>, David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Freeciv-Dev] cmdlevel: sticky and moved out of connection into player structure
From: Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:47:22 -0700 (PDT) 
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> A bigger issue is transmitting the password over an unsecured TCP channel
> in cleartext.  Getting around this can be done in several different ways,
> but then you get back to silly laws....
> 
> So, if you don't encrypt the "password", you'll avoid many legal issues,
> and you won't lose much security.

MD5 is exportable, and most likely sufficiently strong for all intensive
purposes.

- alex
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