Sorry to correct you, but ssh is much more than secured telnet. Using stunnel it is possible to encrypt telnet over an ssl link using a single key of 40/56/128 bits (this would probably be using the openssl libraries to do so). However ssh uses a combination of keys to encrypt the data. One of those is the server session key that changes automatically every hour. This makes it more difficult to break ssh via brute force than ssl. However, I'm not foolish enough to state that it is impossible to break, just very difficult. - John Airey Internet Systems Support Officer, ITCSD, Royal National Institute for the Blind, Bakewell Road, Peterborough PE2 6XU, Tel.: +44 (0) 1733 375299 Fax: +44 (0) 1733 370848 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: David Walgamotte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 November 2000 14:52 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: ssh is secured telnet ! -----Original Message----- From: Ian Diddams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I've been tasked into investigating a link a 3rd party may be making to our servers shortly over SSL. I've downloaded OpenSSL and installed it etc... but frankly I don;t know what I'm supposed to do with it! The 3rd party mentioned will basically be telneting in over an SSL link I am told (but nobody knows any more :-( ) ... so how exactly would such an arrangmet normally occur? Any ideas? Apologies for the ignorance, but I have to start somewhere (the 3rd party is not available for questioning AFAIUI). Ian ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
