On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 11:57:51PM -0500, Vinh Truong wrote:
> * Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010406 15:23]:
> >
> > Sounds like you need to talk to your firewall administrator. If you trust
> > him that is... How can you be sure that he's not snooping on the passing
> > telnet traffic?
>
> hmm, i thought that ssh encrypted traffic between server and client?
> wouldn't that defeat his snooping, assuming he is?
Yep. Ssh does. But telnet doesn't. And it *does* look a bit suspicious if
your firewall administrator tries to encourage telnet and block ssh...
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Karl E. Jørgensen
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