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RE: telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Wed Aug 1 02:04:42 2001

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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>,
	Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
Cc: Kevin Steves <stevesk@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:08:51 -0700
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> From: Rafi Sadowsky [mailto:rafi-nanog@meron.openu.ac.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:43 PM
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > > :6) Finding a unix ssh that supports 3DES and DES.
> 
>  DES(not 3DES) is a compile time option for SSH1
> (default is not to support DES)
> 
>  Try to convince to person in charge of SSH that even 
> SSH1+DES while weak
> is much better than cleartext tel-net ....

SSH1, properly deployed, is not all that weak and scads better than (any
version) telnet.

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