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Beginner Joined: 04 Mar 2005 Posts: 10

I work in an 800-persons-around company. Everyone has his own computer. Each computer is assigned an intranet IP, such as 10.0.18.55. Any connection into the Internet have to go through a proxy server: 10.0.18.100. So I set in Zmud Proxy Firewall Sock4 Proxy as 10.0.18.100:1080. I can mudding normally. However, I'm very upset about this proxy. Is it possible that the IT personnel in our company may spy my zmud and can see zmud log ? Is Zmud connection encrypted ? I don't hope my boss know I'm mudding.

Wizard Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 1127 Location: London

zMUD isn't encrypted, it couldn't be otherwise the muds you're connecting to wouldn't be able to tell what you were trying to send.
It's perfectly possible that your IT company could see what you're doing, especially since proxy servers are tailor made for that sort of thing anyway.

If you wanted to be safe you could set up a secure ssh tunnel from work to home (which would be encrypted), then use the home connection to connect to the muds. That way the data from mud<->house would be unencrypted, but would then be hidden from home<->work.
You'd need some sort of ssh server at home though, putty at work and a bit of reading around to find out what software you'd need (I don't know off the top of my head whether there's an easy ssh server you could use to tunnel through).

Good luck ;)