Subject: Re: identd with NAT and IPv6 support.
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org, tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 03/27/2002 20:23:08
[ On Wednesday, March 27, 2002 at 20:14:00 (-0500), Aidan Cully wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: identd with NAT and IPv6 support.
>
> ident is useless once you leave a trusted area.

Actually even within a trusted and protected environment it's pretty
much "useless", or more correctly:  unsafe to use, without encryption.
Unfortunately there's not much support built into the commonly available
client libraries to support use of shared secrets.

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