Re: using jCVS for secure connections?

["Hugh C. Lauer" <lauer@merl.com>]

At 11:01 AM 9/9/98 -0700, J. Jeffrey Close wrote:
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>I've been told by everyone I speak to that the pserver method of CVS is
>really a bad idea and not to use it.  So the question is, does jCVS have
>another more secure method of connecting for remote clients?
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>cheers,
>jeffrey

I use the pserver method of connecting routinely and have had no problems.
In the office, the connection goes over the internal network, so security
is not a major issue.

From home, I use it over a secure connection.  We support two in our lab --
Microsoft's Virtual Private Network (based on the PPTP protocol) and Data
Fellows F-SSH (i.e., the secure shell protocol).  The first is for Windows
users, while the second is for Unix users.  

Data Fellows's stuff (a Finnish company) is really, really secure.
Microsoft's choice of keys based on passwords may not be the very best, but
PPTP itself is secure enough to keep routine prying eyes from watching my
traffic.  I use it for all my Windows work at home.

/Hugh Lauer