From: pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 08:47:19 PST
To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au
Subject: Datalink encryption
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>From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)

>Hi, I've started playing around with doing encryption with telnet/telnetd
>again (I'm cheating and using the rsa/prime number code from pgp-2.0)
>and I'm stuck on what to use as the encryption for the actual flow of data.
>(hmm...if it works for telnet/telnetd, it can probably be made to work for
> the other r-daemons too :-)

>The idea is telnet and telnetd each choose an rsa pub & sec key, then use
>rsa to encode a key for the encryption scheme which both ends send and
>then use that for the base of the link encryption.

Use IDEA; its sitting right in the PGP code.

Perry