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From: gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: secure ftp batch binaries/scripts
Date: 11 Mar 2001 20:58:30 -0600
Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <98avmb$8i6$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
...
>There seems to be an ever-increasing need for network clients that are
>both secure and scriptable. FTP is a prominent case in point; Telnet is
>another.
>
>The Kermit Project at Columbia University has spent the last several years
>adding secure authentication and encryption protocols (Kerberos IV,
>Kerberos V, SRP, SSL/TLS) to its communications software to allow a level
>of privacy not available with ordinary clients, nor even with SSH and its
>relatives. Since the software was already inherently scriptable, the
>result was a secure, scriptable Telnet (and Rlogin) client that could also
>transfer and manage files with Kermit protocol.
This is very interesting. Normally, I am a little sceptical of these
frequent "Kermit can do anything" posts, but this one is very intriguing
because it looks pretty much "ready to go". SSH (the other main contender)
has always looked really complicated to setup - along with the "You can't
really get binaries for it, you have to get /dev/(r)random, you have to deal
with export restrictions, you have to deal with the RSA patent, etc, etc, etc"
bulls**t.
So, convince me. Is it really straightforward to do it with Kermit?