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Article: 13177 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!jaltman
From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10,alt.folklore.computers,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Internet Kermit Service (was Serving non-MS-word *.doc files)
Date: 1 Feb 2002 03:12:49 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <a3cn0k$2ro9$1@citadel.in.taronga.com>,
Peter da Silva <peter@taronga.com> wrote:
Peter, I don't have time to debate with you on the merits of
certificates vs. raw public keys. If you don't want to verify
the certificates you don't have to. (at least not in Kermit.)
If you don't want to use certificates, you don't have to do that
either you can use anonymous ciphers.
However, if you do want to have strong security and you are managing
a large number of machines where to the extent that key management
is an issue; or if you have to delegate the issuance and management
of keys to someone other than yourself, then using a Certificate
Authority (you can be your own) is a very good idea.
Now to answer your other questions so that we can terminate this
thread:
. Kermit is a scriptable client and server
. It can be run as a service
. It can be run without access to the desktop
. You get it by ordering from the web site
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!!
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP and HTTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ secured with Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@columbia.edu OpenSSL. Interfaces with OpenSSH