The Two Towers Help - Technical Help

Encryption (Technical Help)

Because many players play from shared labs, etc., we have seen hack attempts, some unfortunately successful. Thus, we have added encryption support for connections to the MUD.

We have two different modes of encryption available.

SSL support:
- Several clients have it built-in. Just check the "SSL" box if it's there and connect to port 443.
  - TinyFugue 5: /connect -x (or /world -x)
  - KildClient: check "Use SSL"
  - KBtin: use #sslsession instead of #session
- For windows users you can either use the 'stunnel' application or download our tool at http://t2tmud.org/tools/T2Ttunnel.exe and install it. You can then connect to "localhost" port 9999 and play the way you used to.
- If you have problems with the installer (for example, on Win98), there's http://t2tmud.org/tools/T2Ttunnel.zip -- unpack it somewhere and run by hand.
- For Unix/Linux users, apt/yum/pkg-get/whatever the package "stunnel", then either:
  - by hand: run "stunnel -c -d localhost:9999 -r t2tmud.org:443",
  - or use the following config file:
```
        ====( /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf )=================================
        [realmud]
        accept  = localhost:9999
        connect = t2tmud.org:443
```
```
        [testmud]
        accept  = localhost:9990
        connect = t2tmud.org:444
        ==================================================================
```
  For added security you will want to load the SSL certificate of t2tmud.org into your client. See 'help ssl certificate' for the actual certificate.
SSH support:

    ssh towers@t2tmud.org

Too bad, there's very few ssh programs for Windows. Pretty much the only popular one is Putty -- and it's difficult to tie to your usual MUD client.