From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 13:49:15 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: RC4 crack
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In article <21076.9507180656@exe.dcs.exeter.ac.uk>, aba@atlas.ex.ac.uk wrote:

>> Is there an easy way to integrate machines who are not on-net 24-7
>> into this protocol?  Not all of us have dedicated lines.:)
>
>Well you could run a local master, ... or as you are using NT right?
>you could use Andy's code when he adds socket support to interface to
>masters.
>
>As to the problem of not having 24-7 connectivity, you could either
>use the WWW page, or the server (it will do this anyway) will keep
>re-trying to get a socket connect to the master until it suceeds, so
>when you next go on-line ...  wham it gets through again as
>connectivity is resumed and says whatever it has been trying to say.
>We need it to retry in case of network out (or horror) big master
>falling over, until it gets resumed.

On many machines that will mean that it will try to initiate a connection
to the host. Please allow for a manual connect option.

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