On Tue, 1 Mar 1994, Jef Poskanzer wrote:
I've been talking about entrypted telnet with Craig Leres lately, and he came up with an interesting idea. The background is, sysadmins want encrypted telnet so that passwords don't fly around in the clear, but at the same time, they don't want to spend too many extra CPU cycles. I figured at least some sysadmins would resist installing an encryption-capable telnetd because of this concern about overhead.
[Some text deleted] Have you seen the proposals for an encryption option for TELNET? There are at least two proposals. The first is by David Borman dated April 1990 and the second by Lawrence Brown and Gilje Jaatun dated December 1991. Borman's proposal focuses on the possibility of encryption of passwords only. Unfortunately I don't have a pointer to an electronic copy of these proposals -- perhaps someone else on this list has? I am currently working on a project which requires encrypted TELNET. We will be encrypting *all* transmitted data to protect sensitive information -- not just passwords. Does anybody know the current status of standardization of an encryption option for TELNET? -- Rolf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rolf Michelsen Phone: +47 73 59 87 33 SINTEF DELAB Email: rolf.michelsen@delab.sintef.no 7034 Trondheim Office: C339 Norway ----------------------------------------------------------------------