17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. Perry