1994-03-02 - Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet

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From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
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From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 09:55:45 PST
To: adam@bwh.harvard.edu (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet
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Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu> writes:
>
> 	A general framework, based on public key encryption would be a
> far more flexible, powerful and useful tool for generating security on
> the net than simply securing TELNET.

I sincerely doubt that such a system would be designed or implemented
before the turn of the century.  All one needs to do is take a look at the
PEM key certification authority clusterfuck to see just how difficult it
can be to implment something like this.

The additional benefits that adding encryption to telnet offer is that the
telnet protocol is used in more areas than telnet.  Many programs and
protocols use the telnet system for control channels and other bits so that
a significant change to telnet can have ramifications beyond just the
obvious ones...

jim

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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>