Subject: Re: secure telnet
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/21/1998 15:25:18
In message <v03130302b253c062c9d5@[137.78.84.130]>,"Henry B. Hotz" writes:
>There is a kerberos 4 plugin for bettertelnet 1.x and a kerberos 5 plugin
>for bettertelnet 2.0.  That will take care of the initial login from the
>MacOS machine, but you can't rlogin or telnet from that session securely.
>The security is not transitive, and none of the data content of the session
>is secure.

yes and no.  you can get encrypted sessions with either the kerberos 4.x or
5.x plugin.  the ecnrypted sessions conceals the plaintext of the entire
telnet session, making it safe to run ssh (or more encrypt telnet's)
on the remote host.