Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09661; Sat, 24 Feb 96 17:44:43 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15868; Sat, 24 Feb 96 17:44:22 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA10105; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 17:26:59 -0500 Received: from jekyll.piermont.com by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA09248; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 17:09:11 -0500 Received: from localhost (perry@localhost) by jekyll.piermont.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA05764; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:35:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199602241835.NAA05764@jekyll.piermont.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jekyll.piermont.com: Host perry@localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Kirk McKusick Cc: John Kohl , tls@NetBSD.ORG, netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Subject: Re: telnetd '-a' option to force encryption In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:24:17 PST." <199602240724.XAA08285@flamingo.McKusick.COM> Reply-To: perry@piermont.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 13:35:37 -0500 From: "Perry E. Metzger" Sender: owner-netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: first-class X-Loop: netbsd-developers@NetBSD.ORG Kirk McKusick writes: > I am curious how the MIT telnet differs from the telnet done > by Dave Borman at Cray which is distributed on 4.4BSD. Dave > used -x to indicate that the session should be encrypted. The Telnet from MIT is Dave Borman's full distribution with the crypto, as of October. The proposal was to add the SIPB patches to allow you to indicate by a flag that you wouldn't accept a non-encrypted connection if the negotiation for encryption failed. Perry