[HECnet] Telnet/SSH attacks

[Ian McLaughlin]

Encrypted telent?   I am intrigued...

The Telnet protocol itself isn't encrypted - passwords are in cleartext.   Running telnet inside an SSH tunnel is different...

Ian

On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:22 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 11/26/2013 05:56 PM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:
Stupid!   Disable TELNET for anything but your local net.   You do NOT want
plain text sent over the internet!

Telnet does not imply a lack of encryption.   I regularly use encrypted
telnet, as do many others.

                          -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA


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