Re: BAHAHA was (telnetd vulnerability from BUGTRAQ)
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 09:35:50AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
> BTW, I won't get into any further arguments about ftp, mainly I am
> convinced its usefulness is past. Remember *I* *AM* *CONVINCED*, which
> means *OPINION*. Sure other options exist, but FTP in the > 5 years ago
> old school sense isn't even optimal anymore except for
> anonymous/chroot'd (or non-chroot'd for significantly larger values of
> sane FTPDs) UL/DL. I won't use it and haven't for 5+ years (/me grins).
Assuming the U.S. government doesn't freak out and stop it, IPSEC
encryption will soon(?) be used for all internet communication, which
should greatly increase the security of every application. Hopefully
this encryption will be done in hardware which will take the burden
of heavy calculation off of the CPU. In this case, programs like
telnet and ftp will once again be desirable as they lack the
computational overhead of scp et al.
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