On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:59:12PM +1000, erich wrote:
> I have read a lot of people talking about not using telnet over the
> internet, the question is:
> How do make "secure" (read, secure as practical) remote connections
> over the internet ?
Most people will use `ssh' for interactive remote connection (presumably
what you were after). Something to keep in mind is that there are two
versions of the protocol ssh-1 and secsh.
F-Secure / Datafellows ssh and OpenSSH both implement ssh-1; almost
every distribution has F-Secure ssh available. Often, however, they
are only available from the "non-us" servers.
[ For Redhat: http://orcus.progsoc.org/pub/Linux/redhat-non-US
For Debian: http://orcus.progsoc.org/pub/Linux/debian-non-US
Others, I'm not sure about, anyone have URLs? ]
In all cases keep in mind that they use RSA which presents no problems
in Australia but does if the machine in question is located in the US
(Until September 20th 2000).
A better option will be to use OpenSSH. It will be available in the
next releases of most distributions if it is not already I believe.
Another option is to use SSLTelnet, which is similiar to the security
you get when going to "secure" websites. Again carried at most "non-us"
distribution sites.
Finally if you don't need interactive access you have other options
(like SFS, X11 tokens, etc.)
Hope this helps,
Anand
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