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  • From: Bradley Bell <bradleyb AT u.washington.edu>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: encrypted passwords
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:37:13 -0700


Is there a HOWTO for this? or can anyone give me a brief description of
their setup? I'm running sql2k on win2k, btw.

-brad

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:13:39PM -0700, Michael Peppler wrote:
> 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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