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From: gazelle@yin.interaccess.com (Kenny McCormack)
Subject: Re: secure ftp batch binaries/scripts
Date: 12 Mar 2001 07:29:38 -0600
Organization: The official candy of the new Millennium
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <98hhft$ofs$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In article <98he0m$5d8$1@yin.interaccess.com>,
>Kenny McCormack <gazelle@interaccess.com> wrote:
>:
>: 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?
>
>All of the issues with /dev/random, export issues, patents are the same.
>You can't avoid them regardless of which security protocols you want to use.
OK - thanks for the honest answer. I guess it is still too complicated to
deal with. But I will check it out (the Kermit web page and stuff related
to this), anwyay.