1995-07-31 - Re: ssh protocol
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From: ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Reply To: <199507310737.JAA06792@cnam.fr>
UTC Datetime: 1995-07-31 20:36:58 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 13:36:58 PDT
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From: ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 13:36:58 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: ssh protocol
In-Reply-To: <199507310737.JAA06792@cnam.fr>
Message-ID: <9507312036.AA08394@toad.com>
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Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> wrote:
> The basic idea behind the protocol goes roughly like this:
> 1. Exchange session keys using Diffie-Hellman
> 2. Each side sends a signature of the Diffie-Hellman exchange (the
> signature can be with any of a number of algorithms; RSA and
> Elliptic Curve systems have been defined).
I've been playing with the cryptotcp program available from utopia.. It
has some bugs but works pretty well, if you don't mind waiting 20-30
seconds at the beginning. It does a Diffie-Hellman exchange and 3DES over
telnet. How hard would it be to add some sort of authentication to this
program?
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- 1995-07-23 (Sat, 22 Jul 95 17:30:45 PDT) - Re: Ssh “security hole”: proposed fix - David Mazieres <mazieres@pa.dec.com>
- 1995-07-23 (Sun, 23 Jul 95 04:45:41 PDT) - ssh protocol - Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
- 1995-07-31 (Mon, 31 Jul 95 00:38:17 PDT) - Re: ssh protocol - Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@cnam.fr>
- 1995-07-31 (Mon, 31 Jul 95 13:36:58 PDT) - Re: ssh protocol - ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
- 1995-08-01 (Mon, 31 Jul 95 22:17:22 PDT) - Re: ssh protocol - Enzo Michelangeli <enzo@ima.com>
- 1995-07-31 (Mon, 31 Jul 95 13:36:58 PDT) - Re: ssh protocol - ghio@cmu.edu (Matthew Ghio)
- 1995-07-31 (Mon, 31 Jul 95 00:38:17 PDT) - Re: ssh protocol - Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@cnam.fr>
- 1995-07-23 (Sun, 23 Jul 95 04:45:41 PDT) - ssh protocol - Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>