13 Oct
2006
13 Oct
'06
11:41 p.m.
It should be fairly easy to mod the hobbit code so that it does a really simple scramble (XOR) of the data stream. If you do that, plus running it on a non-standard port, should sufficiently confuse most people running a sniffer. At least the data wouldn't be in plaintext and the attacker would have to code up a custom app to decode the data. If they have time to do that, they are probably good enough to own your network anyway.