Perry E. Metzger writes:
As I've mentioned previously to people, there is an actual, live, honest to god RFC for doing authentication and encryption of telnet sessions, and the 4.4 BSD release contains the actual, honest to god code. I would suggest looking at that before reinventing the wheel. All sites ought to support it -- its a big win.
Ed Carp says:
Well, last time I looked for it, I couldn't find it. And doesn't it use DES?
Not sure whether you mean the RFCs or the 4.4 BSD code. Anyway, here are a few related RFCs: 1416 E D. Borman, "Telnet Authentication Option", 02/01/1993. (Pages=7) (Format=.txt) (Obsoletes RFC1409) 1412 E K. Alagappan, "Telnet Authentication : SPX", 01/27/1993. (Pages=4) (Format=.txt) 1411 E D. Borman, "Telnet Authentication: Kerberos Version 4", 01/26/1993. (Pages=4) (Format=.txt) The text is available from ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc####.txt. Hope it helps... -- Martin Janzen janzen@idacom.hp.com