FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

You can set up an ssh tunnel to do port forwarding as well as encryption
of the communication.

Michael

On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 17:08, Bradley Bell wrote:
> In that case, how does one set up secure communication between e.g. a web
> server and the sql server?  Can something like stunnel be used?
> 
> -brad
> 
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 08:00:07PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
> > 
> > Absolutely not, it is a clear text equivalent.  You can look at 
> > src/tds/login.c for the exact algorithm.
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Bradley Bell wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, looking at the login packets at http://www.freetds.org/tds.html, I 
> > > see
> > > that the 7.0 protocol appears to use encrypted passwords, and the other 
> > > does
> > > not.  How secure is this encryption?  Is it perceived to be good enough 
> > > to
> > > go out across an open network?
> > > 
> > > -brad
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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