13 Nov
1992
13 Nov
'92
4:47 p.m.
From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Hi, I've started playing around with doing encryption with telnet/telnetd again (I'm cheating and using the rsa/prime number code from pgp-2.0) and I'm stuck on what to use as the encryption for the actual flow of data. (hmm...if it works for telnet/telnetd, it can probably be made to work for the other r-daemons too :-)
The idea is telnet and telnetd each choose an rsa pub & sec key, then use rsa to encode a key for the encryption scheme which both ends send and then use that for the base of the link encryption.
Use IDEA; its sitting right in the PGP code. Perry