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Re: IT security people sleep well

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Senie)
Thu Jun 3 17:57:45 2004

Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:56:55 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
In-Reply-To: <200406032132.i53LWuIh020211@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



>
>On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:16:44 PDT, Eric Kuhnke <eric@fnordsystems.com>  said:
>
> > The part about Telnet is truly scary...   Among people who have "clue",
> > the biggest reason I have heard to continue running ssh1 is for
> > emergency access via hand-held smartphones or other pocket sized
> > devices.  The Handspring Treo 180 and similar keyboarded cellphone-pda
> > devices don't have the CPU power necessary for a SSH2 key exchange,
> > unless I'm drastically mistaken about the FPU abilities of a 33 MHz
> > Motorola Dragonball...

Cisco 26xx, 36xx routers at least, current 12.3 IOS, no ssh support in the 
basic loads that I can find. Telnet is the only way in other than the 
console port.



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