From owner-freebsd-security Fri Nov 24 09:22:11 1995 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA08060 for security-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:22:11 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA08055 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:22:03 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA02513; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:19:16 -0800 To: Randy Berndt cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I wonder how much trouble something like this would be to do? :) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:44:06 CST." <199511241644.KAA26846@kilgour.nething.com> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:19:16 -0800 Message-ID: <2511.817233556@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Wow, only $3,600 for the PC version. I wonder if Dec has looked on > the ftp site: ftp.cs.hut.fi:/pub/ssh for the ssh program, that does > much the same thing for telnet, rlogin type stuff for FREE. Yeah, but ssh is different. The DEC folks are encrypting *all* traffic between the networks, not just those clients that support end to end crypto. Yes, you and I may know that doing it one layer up is architecturally superior, but to the MIS manager who reads DEC's solution as "one big hammer" he won't have to worry too much about, well, the solution he'll pick will be obvious. Jordan