From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 09:52:17 PDT
To: ylo@cs.hut.fi (Tatu Ylonen)
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Ssh (Secure Shell) remote login program
In-Reply-To: <199507121451.RAA06122@shadows.cs.hut.fi>
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FANTASTIC!!!!
I think we've all been waiting for / building this.
Kudos...

> Looking for a secure rlogin?
> Want to deter IP-spoofing, DNS-spoofing, and routing-spoofing?
> Want to run X11 connections and TCP/IP ports securely over an insecure network?
> Worried about your privacy?
> Then read this.
> 
> 
> Introducing SSH (Secure Shell) Version 1.0
...

Quibbles/suggestions:

ssh, while an obvious name, already collides with a nice shar decoder and
a different kind of secure shell from CFS.

Probably a worthwhile collision though.

Second: 

It would be very helpful if the socket connection could be made (optionally)
through a telnet proxy for firewalls (with optional quoting of problem
characters).  I've actually done this with TERM and a helper program.

I may produce a patch for this.

Third:

Of course support for S/Key and tokens/hand held authenticators would be
useful additions for some situations (although inferior to RSA...).

Forth:

Someone needs to crank out a Windows/Mac client... (Lower priority, but
still useful.)

Fifth:

udprelay etc. could also be borrowed from the term suite.

Sixth:

Integration with TCP/NFS and/or client-server CFS would be fantastic.
(One local CFS server acting as a secure client over tcp to a remote
CFS server.)
Remote encrypted mount of an encrypted partition...

sdw
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