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[VANILLA-L:936] Re: [VANILLA-L:930] Re: metaserver.eu.netrek.org access?



Quoting Sven Neuhaus (Sven.Neuhaus@de.uu.net):
> What are the RSA keys used for in the metaserver?
> If we can't get it to work, would someone be willing to spend the 
> 4 hours or so and recode the metaserver as a quick hack in perl?

To allow only valid clients onto a server. Each clients has one of its
key pairs in the metaserver. When then server starts and I think every
so often it sucks the keys down from the metaserver.
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