On 17 Dec, Mipam wrote:
>> > Are there any more features that might make SSH valuable?
>> 
>> TCP tunnelling.
> 
> Could be good point, however, in many cases you'll end up with tcp over tcp
> which isnt a good idea. To point out one issue with that look here:
> 
> http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
> 
> To come back on ssh, two other advantadges (forgive my worse English) are
> 1) RSA-based host authentication. 
> 2) Instead of giving in a username you can also use RSA based authentication
> with a passphrase. It's shortly explained in ssh(1) (man 1 ssh).
> 
Thanks, I'll follow-up on both of those.

> In these days of the internet it's more like: RIP telnet :)
> But ..... using ipsec and telnet isnt that bad.
> 
I doubt - RIP telnet will be. But the reasons for that will
be in my talk. :-) (Sorry for the tease)

					Jessem.