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> who even knew that telnet had encryption? I did. Most of the ftp, telnet, rsh, etc. utilities shipped with BSD and Linux had Kerberos and encryption support
by einhverfr 13y ago
> who even knew that telnet had encryption?
I did. Most of the ftp, telnet, rsh, etc. utilities shipped with BSD and Linux had Kerberos and encryption support. I also suspect that these had at least wider use in larger environments than many people knew, because before OpenSSH had Kerberos support, you could integrate encryption and authentication in useful ways.
- cperciva 13y agoOh, I'm not talking about the Kerberized telnet. I'm talking vanilla BSD telnet.
- einhverfr 13y agoBut even there I think you are talking about "oh you can do that with kerberos which not everyone has so let's add it for other environments too." The problem with encrypted telnet has always been handling of cases where encryption isn't supported.