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Re: [linux-security] SSL
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Thu Jun 6 13:07:39 1996
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: jordy@aloha.com (Jordy)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:29:22 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960602231508.11273E-100000@aloha.com> from "Jordy" at Jun 2, 96 11:21:31 pm
> One thing that seems to bother me is that in the telnet daemon, it won't
> ask for the login name if the client and daemon have authentication. I
> guess this is a "feature", it would be a lot nicer if it used the keys
> and the password with kerberos encryption. I think this would probably
> fix the problem of packet sniffing of the passwords while login.
ssh is a slightly different tool but has these features. US citizens can
get it from finland but do need to read the documentation to disable certain
items before their Government will allow them to use it (patent hooha as usual)
Alan
