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Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet
On Wed, 2 Mar 1994, Adam Shostack wrote:
> I don't, but I would question the wisdom of putting lots of
> effort into a telnet encryption scheme. I would think it would be
> much more productive to build an encryption scheme at the network
> level, say, as packets are being encapsulated, so that users can
> specify that they want an encrypted session for telnet or ftp, or even
> sendmail could encrypt automatically when sending to certain hosts.
I agree with your observation. The Telnet protocol is however
independent of any underlying network protocol. In our application the
Telnet connection can be established over a lot of different types of
networks. Implementing secure IP will not give us much since it does not
cover the other possibilities for a Telnet connection. It is also a
question of resources (read "time") -- we require a solution *now* (and
preferable yesterday :-)
No flame, just an observation that what seems to be a better solution is
not always suitable...
-- Rolf
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