Another good reason for telnet

[Glenn Crocker]

But all the other protocols that are telnet-compatible have security
problems.  POP3, for example, really should be encrypted.  That's your
password flying over the socket for all the world to see.  Same with FTP.

On the HTTP side, I'd like to see more https usage just for privacy reasons.
There's really no reason for unencrypted data to ever move point-to-point.
In that way, I'd say that the insecure protocols telnet is compatible with
are "bad".

-glenn

Glenn Crocker
Netmud   http://www.netmud.com
913-451-7785, glenn at netmud.com

> I may have lost the point here at some place along the line, but the
> security issue isn't telnet client, it is telnet running on the server as
> far as I know.
>
> When you do things like telnet to port 80 to act like a browser,
> that isn't
> using telnet on the server, you are just acting to the web server
> like a web
> browser by using telnet.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Heryer [mailto:jheryer at violet.jayhawks.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:31 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Another good reason for telnet
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>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, DCT Jared Smith wrote:
> > Frankly, if you follow my logic here, you'll see: Woe be the
> day that Bill
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> > Gates (rather, his heir) dispenses the only 'certified' encryption
> protocol
> > on the 'Net. The best way to keep that from happening is to use Telnet
> > responsibly. No need to use it to login to shell, but within a stout,
> logged,
> > firewall even that should be possible.
>
> Client to server ssh usage is primarly *nix thing. The day Microsoft
> developes a certified, encrypted, remote session it will be from one
> windows machine to another. Primarily used as the trasportation of choice
> for the new generation of virii. I can't forsee the guys working on
> openssh supporting the new microsoft encryption scheme (if it
> ever were to
> exist).
>
> 'Responsible' telnet usage goes hand in hand with 'responsible' packet
> sniffer usage. The only thing a firewall will do for you is
> prevent telnet
> usage and that my friend ... is a goodthang(tm)
>
> > Good Lord, we have to trust someone, somewhere.
>
> Yeah... right.
>
> --
> John Heryer
> jheryer at jayhawks.net
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