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Article: 13631 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: dold@45.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: local access to encryption?
Date: 19 Aug 2002 02:46:11 GMT
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Thomas A. Horsley <tom.horsley@att.net> wrote:
: Another question from that emacs pest (they'll die down when I have to go
: back to doing real work on Monday :-).
I wish I had some work to do on Monday ;-(
: Is there any way I can use that encryption locally to do things like encrypt
: and decrypt strings, or encrypt and decrypt files on disk? If foolish folk
: want to store their passwords on disk, it might be nice if they could at
: least use the best encryption kermit has to offer when they do it (or would
: access to that violate terms of the export license you just got?).
If you use the dialer to create a .ksc file for an ssh connection, and you
provide the login name and password to the dialer, the .ksc file contains a
password in something less than readable form.
The "rahul.ksc" on my home machine doesn't prompot for a password, as it's
stored in the .ksc.
The "rahul.ksc" on my laptop has my username, but not my password, so
I get the ssh-challenge from the remote system fo a password.
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Clarence A Dold - dold@email.rahul.net
- Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA.