Re: hostmangling in new ircd

Andy Smith <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:19:35 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.network.irc.blitzed.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:09:25PM +0200, Mark Bergsma wrote:
> Why not just <registerednickname>.blitzed ? Is that because then the
> ircd cannot encrypt/decrypt back and forth between the two forms?

We are going to do that later for registered nicks who want it, but
since that would involve talking to services (delay between
registering to irc and being recognised by services) and not all
users have/want registered nicks it was decided that we need basic
host masking/mangling/cloaking to start with.

So later on the sequence could be

[email protected]
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(sign onto irc)
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grifferz!andy-gfbtwrRZYq5HDFjNesmDMxLTXOFvDH2gybgF7IMETEw@public.gmane.org
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(identify to nickserv)
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