On Mon, 25 Apr 1994, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Ed Carp says:
In that spirit, spurred on by my f**king netcom account being broken into by some idiot with a packet sniffer, I've been looking into hacking "pgptalk" (actually, ytalk with a popen() call to pgp and D-H key exchange) to provide the same sort of functionality for telnet. The target platforms are SunOS (which is what netcom runs) and linux.
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.
Well, last time I looked for it, I couldn't find it. And doesn't it use DES? What does it use for key exchange? I'd also have to hack it quite a bit to port it to linux, I think. But if you could point me to an FTP site that has the code, I'd be willing to look at it. Come to think of it, the last time I looked, I *did* find it on a Walnut Creek CD-ROM FTP server - but it wasn't complete, and it had no instructions for adding the DES code. Could you refer me to a site that has the COMPLETE code, ready-to-build?