On Thursday, 21. February 2002 14:24, Martin Peikert wrote:
I'd like to use telnet with encryption support. I took a look at the telnet.spm but I couldn't find any option for encryption. Has anybody tried this before and was succesful ?
Uuuuh, why isn't it me having such innovative ideas? >:-P
Did you try ssh/sshd?
Sure, but if you compare the history of telnet / ssh during the last years, ssh had lot's of security holes and I'm just aware of one hole in telnetd. *BSD comes out of the box with encryption support for telnet and I consider it not much less secure than ssh. I even think that unencrypted telnet _can_ be more secure than ssh (depending on the topology, of course). To get the telnet-password you still have to sniff the traffic - if ssh has one of those bufferoverflows or other problems again, you don't even need to do that - you just compile the exploit and root the machine.
Martin
Bjoern