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

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <pmetzger@lehman.com>
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Message Hash: 686410f3554b3f6d8c439a2992fb6c70d44f0bc40420e4d47694f6b17a9de5d3
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UTC Datetime: 1994-03-02 16:33:01 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:33:01 PST

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 94 08:33:01 PST
To: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Subject: Re: low-overhead encrypted telnet
In-Reply-To: <9403021619.AA10508@ah.com>
Message-ID: <9403021632.AA21725@andria.lehman.com>
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Eric Hughes says:
> 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.

Although running an encrypted IP stack does require sysadmin
cooperation, it does not require a kernel rebuild -- John Ioannidis
has built modloadable versions of most of the swIPe software.

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

Agreed -- sadly its arriving VERY slowly. 4.4BSD Lite comes with a
standards-compliant encrypted telnet implementation, however.

Perry

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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>