Re: [Unreal-users] IP cloaking

[tabris <ta...@ta...>]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 3:01 pm, tabris wrote:
> 	I realize that this would be a module question, and that it likely
> would not be recommended. However, I think there is a sufficient use
> for a IP cloaking method that would keep the first 2 or 3 octets
> uncloaked, as it would be easier to recognize people.
>
	I should probably amend this posting, to mention that I know that you=20
don't just cloak using the lat octet, as that would then make a simple=20
lookup table for which of 256 values it is. the entirety of the IP=20
would be used as input for the cloaked-portion, same as normal=20
host-cloaking does.
> 	I remember that the last time this proposal came up, there were a
> couple objections.
> a)	security. 255 possibilities is supposedly sufficiently trivial to
> attack.
> b)	IRC Clients not handling it correctly. This is a possibility that
> is harder to trivialize. However, I remember ConferenceRoom 1.8.x
> doing this (and 2.x as well), and IRC clients handled it just fine.
> istr they having an IP cloak like so (this is an actual cloak pulled
> from my logs from a ConferenceRoom server I went to back in 2003):
> 4.18.44.KU929=3D
>
> 	This is NOT to mean that I want to remove the MD5 cloaking algo. I
> just want to modify the IPv6 and IPv4 cloaking to make it easier to
> identify which network/ISP that a user is connecting from, thus
> making it easier to identify a user on-sight.
>
> 	I would have checked the forums, but they appear to be missing/down.
> I have also considered coding this myself, but I am insufficiently
> sure that I understand the algorithm in use, as well as being not
> confident in my ability to do so. Won't necessarily stop me from
> trying, if I get enough time.
>
> 	Anyway, does anybody else want this? Would anybody else use it?
> --
> tabris
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