On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, David Andrews wrote: > On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 19:03, John Summerfield wrote: > > If it has any redeeming features, I've long forgotten them. > > Well, Windows only comes with a telnet client (though not a very good > one). This pretty much obligates you to install e.g. putty on Windows > machines in order to communicate with sshd. So ubiquity is probably > telnet's outstanding "redeeming feature".
When I install a server, I create a ro share called "programs." In there, I put putty. Then, every client has putty installed, even if they don't knew it. > > Also, I guess some governments still don't like encryption, and the last Don't they allow SSL (for financial apps such as banking?) > I knew packet radio didn't allow it. I don't see why packet radio should even know the IP packets (which I assume it can't actually recognise as IP packets any more than the telephone exchange can) would care what's in them. You can't encrypt the addressing info in the envelop, but inside the protocol envelope the content's subject to agreement between sender/receiver. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
