1994-03-02 - low-overhead encrypted telnet

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-02 16:27:23 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:27:23 PST

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:27:23 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: low-overhead encrypted telnet
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>	   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

The reason that encrypted telnet is a good thing is that modification
at the network level requires kernel modification, and encrypting a
telnet does not.  Installing an encrypted telnet daemon does require
sysadmin cooperation, but it doesn't mean recompiling the kernel.

As such, encrypted telnet is a good intermediate while the long term
solution of encrypted IP gets developed and deployed.

Eric

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• 1994-03-01 (Tue, 1 Mar 94 11:58:10 PST) - low-overhead encrypted telnet - Jef Poskanzer <jef@ee.lbl.gov>
  • 1994-03-01 (Tue, 1 Mar 94 12:41:05 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
  • 1994-03-02 (Tue, 1 Mar 94 23:38:25 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - Rolf Michelsen <Rolf.Michelsen@delab.sintef.no>
    • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 07:15:34 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
      • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:27:23 PST) - low-overhead encrypted telnet - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
        • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:33:01 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
        • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 09:02:04 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - “Aggelos D. Keromitis” <kermit@ics.forth.gr>
      • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 09:20:30 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - Rolf Michelsen <Rolf.Michelsen@delab.sintef.no>
        • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 13:08:27 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - jpp@markv.com
      • 1994-03-02 (Wed, 2 Mar 94 09:55:45 PST) - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet - Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>