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Plain text = Bad idea

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 14, 2005 04:42 AM
Sending the syslog data unencrypted over the wire is an extremely bad idea. Instead one should set up a stunnel (as in <a href="http://www.stunnel.org/examples/syslog-ng.html" title="stunnel.org">http://www.stunnel.org/examples/syslog-ng.html</a stunnel.org> for example).

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