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[linux-security] Re: Services not required?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bernhard Weisshuhn)
Wed Jun 10 17:44:42 1998
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:03:24 +0200
From: Bernhard Weisshuhn <bkw@weisshuhn.de>
To: linux-security@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980609163618.29945J-100000@alpha.ilm.net>; from Andrew Frolov on Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:43:35PM +0400
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Andrew Frolov (dron@ilm.net) wrote:
> JUST CLOSE TELNET SERVICE!
> Force your users to use ssh - there are already 2 clients for windows,
> aik: SecureCRT and SSH for Windows.
I wish there would be.
AFAIK SecureCRT is in semi-public beta (download for U.S. citizens
only), and the free ssh for windows client is a proof of concept
implementation at best. Slow and painfull.
There definitely is a strong need for a free and powerfull ssh-Client for
Windows (and probably MacOS), just as we need a nice looking GUI-client
doing something like ftp, only with encryption (for passwords at least).
Not for us Real Men[tm], but for the lusers that force us to keep
those sniffable services running. Or would you like to tell your
customers to install a real OS only to be able to update their webpages?
Might be a nice opportunity for a startup software company to get into
the heads of gazillions of Internet-Users, did I hear somebody say
'Telnetscape' ? ;)
> > > > 110/POP3 (Katie Steven's v1.016)
> >
> > I don't know if that version is secure, but it's a sniffable service.
Are there any ssl-based replacements for pop/imap in the works? Or any
other cryptographical correct approach?
regards,
Bernhard
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