From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 04:34:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA25367 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:34:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au [130.194.166.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA25354 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 04:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au) Received: from localhost (graeme@localhost) by babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA19471; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:22:42 +1000 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:22:42 +1000 (EST) From: Graeme Cross Reply-To: Graeme.Cross@sci.monash.edu.au To: alk@pobox.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encrypting filter? In-Reply-To: <13866.43931.67604.470813@avalon.east> Message-ID: X-Attribution: gjc X-PGP-Key-ID: 702DB549 X-URL: http://www.wsc.monash.edu.au/~graeme/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Tony Kimball wrote: > > I want to encrypt a ppp session which is being tunnelled through a > firewall via telnet. What stream encryption software recommendations > can I garner? > SSH. Replace telnet with ssh and you will have encryption, compression and a number of other nice features. There is a port for SSH already, and the SSH FAQ has info on PPP tunnelling (IIRC). Beware SSH version 2 though as it has a far more restrictive licence than version 1. You can find more information about SSH at: http://www.ssh.fi/ Cheers Graeme -- Graeme Cross -- Water Studies Centre, Monash University Random thought #40 (Collect all 235) Andy Warhol got it wrong: 15 minutes is too long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message