Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
Grant Taylor wrote: >I'd have to refresh myself on how granular you can target things, but I >believe you can definitely differentiate between NFS, HTTP, MQ, JDBC, >ODBC, Enterprise Extender, and any other protocols you're using based on >the different ports that they operate on. Perhaps you can..

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/9/21 8:11 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: z/OS does: IPsec (IKEv2). The major issue is that one VPN tunnel can be shared. When you operate this way, there's no security segregation per connection. The TN3270E traffic rides alongside NFS, HTTP, MQ, JDBC, ODBC, Enterprise Extender, and any o

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
Seymour J. Metz wrote: >What's wrongwith running a 3270 client in an encrypted VPN? Grant Taylor replied: >IMHO, nothing. >I think the problem comes from complications around VPNs, not the least >of which include: >1) Complex configurations. -- Does the mainframe support being a VPN >endpoint i

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-08 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 08.05.2021 o 01:21, Ed Jaffe pisze: On 5/5/2021 3:47 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: What's wrongwith running a 3270 client in an encrypted VPN? A VPN does not encrypt your traffic other than between the VPN endpoints. In most implementations, VPN is used to cross the public Internet only.

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
n Sent: 07 May 2021 20:25 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption I'm probably the odd one out, but I say "SEE-pack-eff" and "kicks" for CPACF and CICS and I'm on the east coast of the US. And, yes, we (ICSF) do exploit the new

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/7/21 5:21 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: A VPN does not encrypt your traffic other than between the VPN endpoints. Which is perfectly fine if the VPN endpoints are the client and mainframe. In most implementations, VPN is used to cross the public Internet only. With "most (implementations)" being

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/5/2021 3:47 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: What's wrongwith running a 3270 client in an encrypted VPN? A VPN does not encrypt your traffic other than between the VPN endpoints. In most implementations, VPN is used to cross the public Internet only. Once the traffic hits the edge of the target

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/5/21 4:47 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: What's wrongwith running a 3270 client in an encrypted VPN? IMHO, nothing. I think the problem comes from complications around VPNs, not the least of which include: 1) Complex configurations. -- Does the mainframe support being a VPN endpoint its

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption Hi Richard, This reminds me of a story. Approximately 26 years ago, myself and a colleague were invited to a multi-vendor meeting at a customer site to help solve a problem. My colleague had the misfortune of pronouncing &qu

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread David Spiegel
al Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 4:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] Poland: kicks fo

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Who remembers that song? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 4:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption [External Email. Exercise caution

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
st On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: 07 May 2021 16:55 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption On 5/7/2021 6:19 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: It's a reasonably safe bet that any machine today has CPACF; that was not always true, of course. When IBM or a b

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Eric D Rossman
; > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: 07 May 2021 16:55 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption > > On 5/7/2021 6:19 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > > >

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Friday, May 07, 2021 10:30 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption > > Ha ha - now you reminded me of a phone ca

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Tom Brennan
On 5/7/2021 9:57 AM, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: Tom, CPACF is considered part of weaponry by the US government and so it has to be capable of being disabled for those countries where exportation of encryption is restricted by US Govt arms rules. This is why it has to be explicitly selected

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Tom Brennan
Ha ha - now you reminded me of a phone call years ago with an ISV programmer in England (I'm in USA). The guy said something like, "What does that Wah-Toe indicate?" And I'm like, Wah-Toe Oh... it's WTO :) I say C-I-C-S too. Oops... this is the stuff David Crayford said drives people a

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
2021 16:55 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption On 5/7/2021 6:19 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > It's a reasonably safe bet that any machine today has CPACF; that was > not always true, of course. When IBM or a business partner configures a

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread wjanulin
:42 (GMT-05:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption When I moved Eastern to Western US many moons ago it seemed to me as if in the East I had always heard the acronyms spelled out: D-O-S, C-I-C-S; but that in the West I heard "doss" and &q

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Charles Mills
the other hand is always spelled. No one ever says "dub-two." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulato

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread René Jansen
Hi Chris, My observation: Brits say KIX, Americans C-I-C-S and Germans, Austrians and Swiss say SIKS. Best regards, René > On 7 May 2021, at 18:13, Chris Hoelscher wrote: > > Or, for that matter, is it C - I - C - S or KIX? (I use the former, but I > know many use the latter) > > Chris H

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Or, for that matter, is it C - I - C - S or KIX? (I use the former, but I know many use the latter) Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 Side subject - so how do you pronounce CPACF? I always say each letter, b

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Tom Brennan
On 5/7/2021 6:19 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: It's a reasonably safe bet that any machine today has CPACF; that was not always true, of course. When IBM or a business partner configures a new machine, there's a checkmark for CPACF (zero charge), but it defaults to unchecked. So when ordering a

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Phil Smith III
, 2021 9:19 AM To: ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >I can be wrong, but I read that data portions for telnet traffic are so >small that there is no interest to call ICSF functions and just built-in >TCPIP/TN3270 proce

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread Phil Smith III
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >I can be wrong, but I read that data portions for telnet traffic are so >small that there is no interest to call ICSF functions and just built-in >TCPIP/TN3270 procedures are used. Note: I talk about symmetric key >crypto, not handshaking. And that part of "software ba

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
I wrote: >and I believe Attachment's SSL/TLS support has been around for at >least 20 years. I meant Attachmate, not Attachment. :-) Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >I can be wrong, but I read that data portions for telnet traffic are so >small that there is no interest to call ICSF functions and ju

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-06 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 06.05.2021 o 07:42, Timothy Sipples pisze: Bill Giannelli wrote: Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complaining about the use of telnet for mainframe connections as they say it is not encrypted. Your network security group is correct to complain. We use attachm

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Bill Giannelli wrote: >Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complaining >about the use of telnet for mainframe connections as they say it is not >encrypted. Your network security group is correct to complain. >We use attachmate and HOD. Are there any 3270 emulators that als

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's not hard to configure port 23 (or any port you choose) for TLS and 3270 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2021 8:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 3270

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Billy Ashton
I know that QWS (Jolly Giant software) has a QWS 3270 Secure product. -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Giannelli" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 5/5/2021 6:14:43 AM Subject: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complai

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 May 2021 16:20:05 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >W dniu 05.05.2021 o 12:14, Bill Giannelli pisze: >> Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) ... > >TLS encryption is supported by most emulators including PCOMM, Nexus, >free wc3270, Vista, ZOC, Rumba, QWS... >Note: TLS

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Michael Babcock
We use AT-TLS with our Bluezone product On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 9:20 AM Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > W dniu 05.05.2021 o 12:14, Bill Giannelli pisze: > > Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complaining > about the use of telnet for mainframe connections as they say it is not

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 05.05.2021 o 12:14, Bill Giannelli pisze: Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complaining about the use of telnet for mainframe connections as they say it is not encrypted. We use attachmate and HOD. Are there any 3270 emulators that also do encryption? thanks T

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 May 2021 12:42:58 +, Allan Staller wrote: > >Afaik, Most 3270 emulators(not all) support TLS encryption. It is merely a >session setup parameter. >You will also need to configure the TELNET server to support encryption as >well, > See: https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/extr

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Allan Staller
Michael Babcock Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 5:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Seymour J Metz
What's wrongwith running a 3270 client in an encrypted VPN? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bill Giannelli [billgianne...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Michael Babcock
We use Bluezone which does encryption (TLS 1.2) On 5/5/2021 5:14 AM, Bill Giannelli wrote: Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is complaining about the use of telnet for mainframe connections as they say it is not encrypted. We use attachmate and HOD. Are there any 3270 em