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

[<alex () yuriev com>]

> 2) Your vendor's ssh authentication creates a secure connection, and
>    transfers the password securely, only to then send the password,
>    unencrypted, to an authentication server for verification, making
>    ssh moot.

Establish reasonable path for trust propagation and you have solved the
problem.

Alex