Re: telnet vs ssh [WAS: Re: Dropping telnetd and rsh* for security reasons?]
On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 04:29, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Not really. If people consistantly refuse to deal with some kinds of
> software, then it *will* die out.
ok, devil's advocate here, I can just as easily say that ssh ssl etc are
all just kludges that have been filling the gap until "real" crypto
finally takes its place. If I (and all the machines I communicate with)
have opportunistic encryption using freeswan or the Next Big Thing, why
wouldn't I want to use telnet? In that sort of scenario, ssh is
redundant and cumbersome not to mention processor intensive waste of
time.
If people would just start implementing ipsec/dnssec on a broader scale,
these interim technologies like ssh and ssl could just hurry up and die
off already...
</devil's advocate>
-Mark
(P.S. and then we can all start using ipv6 and ssh's port forwarding
will seem silly and wrong. :-P )
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