[HECnet] DECnet over IP

[Joe Ferraro]

I was using eliptical-curve on my VAX ...

nah... just kidding... sticking with telnet here so you guys can sniff the
traffic over the bridge... and I can enjoy the VAX. Otherwise, I'm not
worried about the internet - there've been move vulnerabilities in SSH
lately than telnet (except for the HUGE SUN/Solaris one a few years ago) -
granted, I think those were x86 specific ?!?! In any case an ssh-attach
against a VAX would be boring (waiting for handshake). I'd rather think an
attacker would try to DoS / overwhelm the VAX with a few hundred ssh
connects.

Agreed, AXP / IA64... ssh seems suitable.

Off topic - does anyone have VAX cd's laying around online?  Looking for
MMS to compile `wget`.


Joe

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:

>
> >by reducing the public key size.
>
>   Yeah, I actually use the same key on all my servers.  Don't tell anybody
> :-)  On a modern PC, even a slow one, the delay is imperceptible.  The VAX
> will just have to live with it.
>
>   I use an ssh client on my Android tablet called "juice ssh".  Works
> great, but it could never log into the VAX because the client would time
> out before the VAX could finish the handshake.  I sent 'em an email to
> complain, and they jacked up the timeout just for my VAX :-)
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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