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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: more telnet encryption
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 17:05:34 UTC
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Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes:

>    [ courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email ]

>In article <nyFP3r2@quack.kfu.com>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> wrote:
>> Stop me before I code again!

>That one is easy. If you don't need Kerberos, your answer is SSH.

Been there, done that. SSH is nice, but it's not a stock part of
the OS. There is still value to adding authentication and encryption
to Telnet despite the presence of SSH.

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