RE: telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?

[Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>]

> From: Rafi Sadowsky [mailto:rafi-nanog () meron openu ac il]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:43 PM
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > > :6) Finding a unix ssh that supports 3DES and DES.
>
>  DES(not 3DES) is a compile time option for SSH1
> (default is not to support DES)
>
>  Try to convince to person in charge of SSH that even 
> SSH1+DES while weak
> is much better than cleartext tel-net ....

SSH1, properly deployed, is not all that weak and scads better than (any
version) telnet.