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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:30:38 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), jkh@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DES, crypt and eBones 
Message-ID:  <199506181630.SAA24862@grumble.grondar.za>

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> > Any chances of a copy of _that_ code? Also, are you likely to get in the
> 
> Officially not yet. AFAIK it is still beta code and only the beta testers
> are allowed to have it. It was announced at Usenix a few weeks ago. We're
> still waiting for it to come out of beta. There was talk about a second
> beta but no news from the authors yet.
> 
> > muck if you test code on _another_ machine? Mine for example? :-) :-) :-)
> 
> That could be arranged if you agree not to distribute the code.

I would be happy to do _that_ too, (Very happy!), but what I more had in
mind, as you are not allowed to possess crypt code, was for you to
maybe hammer the crypto stuff on my machine. Would that land you in the
mess? Would you be agreeable?

> It is not yet telnet compatible (i.e. it requires a port for itself,
> the protocol is incompatible) but it has strong points (Diffie-Hellman
> key exchange with optional mutual authentification, DES/TDES and IDEA
> support, "rsh"-style mode with command execution on the remote host,
> preservation of $DISPLAY, SecurID/S-key/password authentification --
> no clear-text password,...).
> 
> It even has a built-in S-key calculator...

OOOH! sounds good! <rubs hands in glee>.

M

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