Re: Telnet vs PcAnywhere

[Chris Travers <chris () travelamericas com>]

David M. Fetter wrote:

> Neither telnet or pcanywhere are vpn solutions at all.  They are 
> remote access tools.  However, if you are allowing telnet in from over 
> the internet you are already in bad shape.  Telnet sends all it's 
> traffic including passwords in clear text.  PCanywhere used to only 
> send via clear text, but lately I believe they have an option to use 
> encryption, however this solution is still not the best.  Your best 
> solution would be to setup a real VPN perhaps using freeswan with 
> iptables on a linux system on each end.  That would provide you with 
> what you want along with encrypted traffic.


One should note that it is unlikely that you would want to use a 
Kerberized encryption in Telnet over the internet.  SSH is a better 
option in this case, and without using Kerberos for this matter.