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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:45:42 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com
Subject:   Re: crypt folks?
Message-ID:  <9504211545.AA12538@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199504211049.DAA08127@violet.berkeley.edu> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 21, 95 03:49:35 am

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> From: rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com (Robert Sanders)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> Subject: Secure (encrypted) telnet
> Date: 20 Apr 1995 13:36:41 GMT
> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc.
> Lines: 26
> Message-ID: <3n5o19$h32@nntp4.mindspring.com>
> NNTP-Posting-Host: interbev.mindspring.com
> 
> We're about to install a FreeBSD machine for network monitoring, so keep
> in mind that although I am not yet a FreeBSD user, it's only a matter of
> days.
> 
> I've been trying to get FreeBSD's telnet (telnet, libtelnet, telnetd) to
> compile with encryption and authentication enabled.  I'd like to avoid
> Kerberos if possible, so I enabled RSA and DES with the appropriate
> defines.  The trouble is that, when compiling libtelnet, the rsaencpwd.c
> file used an include file that wasn't included in the source (cdc.h).
> After disabling RSA encryption, libtelnet could compile but linking
> telnet resulted in these errors:
> 
> enc_des.o: Undefined symbol _des_new_random_key referenced from text segment
> enc_des.o: Undefined symbol _des_ecb_encrypt referenced from text segment
> enc_des.o: Undefined symbol _des_set_random_generator_seed referenced from text segment
> enc_des.o: Undefined symbol _des_key_sched referenced from text segment
> 
> Can anyone tell me whether FreeBSD's telnet works in encrypted mode,
> and what pieces I have to grap for other operating systems if I wish
> to use it?  Obviously usr.bin/telnet, lib/libtelnet, and libexec/telnetd.
> Where can I find the missing pieces for the RSA and DES components?
> 
> I'm compiling this for Linux, AIX, BSDI, and (soon) FreeBSD.

You need the DES functions from Kerberos.  The ones supplied with eBones are
insufficient.

... Joe

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