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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: how to trace telnet packages?
Date: 28 Dec 2000 18:49:07 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <odu27olexb.fsf@h006008986325.ne.mediaone.net>,
James Carlson <carlson@workingcode.com> wrote:
: ... TELNET just gives a text-mode connection to the remote
: system. If the remote system demands a password, then you'll see both
: that prompt and the typed password itself on the wire.
:
: This is why sane people use ssh nowadays. Using text-mode passwords
: on a network is just foolish.
:
The choices aren't ssh versus no security at all. SSH V1 is a proprietary
protocol; Telnet is the Internet standard for making terminal connections.
There are plenty of secure Telnet clients and servers:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/telnetd.html
and in fact this is among the most active areas in the IETF:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/standards.html
I expect that most major UNIX vendors, including IBM, will be following the
IETF Telnet security standards, and will include secure Telnet servers in
future releases of their operating systems. Ditto for FTP and other
services.
- Frank