What's the benefit of SOS Client w/cryptography over non Cry

farrukh_5 · Post by **farrukh_5** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:05 am

Hi,

Quick Question.....

What's the benefit of a SOS Client with cryptography over the SOS non-crypto client?

Thanks

sterwill · Post by **sterwill** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:24 am

Connections established with a client that supports cryptography (to a SOS server's encrypted port) will cause all your source code to be encrypted as it is transferred between the client and server. Network evesdroppers would not be able to determine the source code that was transferred, even if they had a complete copy of the network traffic.

Unencrypted connections will transfer your source code between the client and server in plain text format. Evesdroppers might be able to record this traffic and view your source code.

If the network path between the SOS client and SOS server is secure, encryption is not necessary, and you may see a performance gain if you disable encryption.