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Datalink encryption
>From: [email protected] (Darren Reed)
>Hi, I've started playing around with doing encryption with telnet/telnetd
>again (I'm cheating and using the rsa/prime number code from pgp-2.0)
>and I'm stuck on what to use as the encryption for the actual flow of data.
>(hmm...if it works for telnet/telnetd, it can probably be made to work for
> the other r-daemons too :-)
>The idea is telnet and telnetd each choose an rsa pub & sec key, then use
>rsa to encode a key for the encryption scheme which both ends send and
>then use that for the base of the link encryption.
Use IDEA; its sitting right in the PGP code.
Perry