The subject pretty much says it all :) The top item on my hobbit wish list is to see some sort of client/server authentication & encryption. This will take care of three of my largest hobbit worries/problems:
Having to poke a hole in my hobbit server's firewall every time I add a new hobbit client.
The possibility that someone might compromise one machine running a hobbit client and use that machine to send false reports or DOS the hobbit server.
Prevent tender bits of info (such as my log files) that would otherwise traverse the network unencrypted.
Of course, this would break a lot of existing scripts (devmon, bb-xsnmp, etc); perhaps it would be possible to have the secure server listen on a different port?
I know I could do all of this with stunnel, but that's one more thing I'd have to install and setup (and one more thing that could break) on all of my hobbit clients. Plus, there's always the laziness factor :)
Food for thought.
-Eric