On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 07:33:38PM +0100, Ian G wrote: > areas. The fact is that SSH came in with a solution > and beat the other guy - Telnet secured over SSL. It > wasn't the crypto that did this, it was the key management, > plain and simple.
Very few people I knew at the time moved to SSH because it was "more secure" and because "passwords weren't in plaintext". Most of the people moved because of the things you could do with SSH above and beyond telnet (port forwarding, X11 forwarding etc). In fact, the latter is the main reason I moved - it dated before i started taking an interest in security. Not to say that there weren't *any* who had the security reasons for moving, but then kerberized telnet existed too at that point in time. Cheers, MBM -- Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://colondot.net/ (Please use this address to reply) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
