Changes for version 0.11
- Fixed a small issue where if a server and a client were configured to use a password, the password negotiation occurred before the encryption negotiation, which caused the password hash to be transmitted using weak internal encryption. This has been fixed by making the password negotiation occur after encryption negotiation. It's not really a major security issue since only a hash and not the real password was transmitted, but still.... this forces a hacker to break the encryption first before they can get the hash, which they THEN have to brute-force break....
- As requested by a CPAN tester, added numbers to the output of 'make test'. Note that due to the fact that make test fork()s, the numbers may not be consequtive.
- The server will generate a new RSA keypair every hour, this substantially increases security.
- Implemented support of "donotcheckversion" which would allow the client to continue negotiating even if an encryption/compression module version mismatch is encountered. Before you use this feature read the POD/man Net::EasyTCP documentation to understand the consequences.
- The clear-text welcome message displayed by the server is now more organized.
- Clarified some vague error messages that were sometimes returned if negotiations failed.
- Minor internal re-organizations.
Modules
Easily create TCP/IP clients and servers