Re: [Unreal-users] IP cloaking
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From: tabris <ta...@ta...> - 2005-07-14 19:17:24
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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 > - > Q: Why is Poland just like the United States? > A: In the United States you can't buy anything for zlotys and in > Poland you can't either, while in the U.S. you can get whatever > you want for dollars, just as you can in Poland. > -- being told in Poland, 1987 =2D-=20 "Sheriff, we gotta catch Black Bart." "Oh, yeah? What's he look like?" "Well, he's wearin' a paper hat, a paper shirt, paper pants and paper boots." "What's he wanted for?" "Rustling." |