<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> divulged:

>as I read from the Kerberos documentation the kerberized version of telnet
>can use an encrypted mode.
>
>Does that mean, that all the traffic, that travels over that connection is
>encypted? Or does it mean, that only passwords are encrypted?

typically it means that all the traffic is encrypted.

>Is such a telnet connection as 'secure' as an ssh or ssl encrypted
>connection?

depends on your definition of secure.  some systems use 3des encryption, in
which case it's arguably as good as anything that ssh or ssl uses.  other
systems only offer des encryption, which may not be strong enough for your
threat model.

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