Secure

Normally, you connect to ishar.com on port 23 or port 9999 to log in to Ishar. This works perfectly well, but uses no encryption. Anyone between you and Ishar's server can watch you mud and see your conversation.

Most of you won't care that your ISP, employer, or random government agencies can watch your every keypress. However, if you wish to not let the Man keep you down, pick one of the following:

• If you have a telnet client thats capable of speaking SSL, ask it to connect to ishar.com port 992 (or 443) using SSL.
• Or if you are on Windows, download and extract isharssl.zip (or isharssl443.zip for port 443). Clicking on the dice icon in that directory will get stunnel running on your machine, configured correctly to talk to Ishar. It won't do anything visible, except leave a minimized stunnel window open on your task bar. Connect with any mud client or telnet to localhost port 9999.
• If you aren't on Windows, install stunnel v3.x on your machine and run it with the commandline as `stunnel -c -d localhost:9999 -r ishar.com:992'. Connect with any mud client or telnet to localhost port 9999.
• Or SSH to die.net, if you have an account there, and run either `tf' or `telnet ishar.com 9999'.