[SLL] telnet localhost

[Chuck Wolber]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Some telnet servers (and clients) have support for Kerberos logins or 
> S/Key (one-time passwords) validation. Some have SSL builtin too. I 
> don't use that though.

Yeah, I looked into those just before I started using SSH. Seemed weird to 
me to go to all of that trouble to secure a protocol like telnet. It's 
time to let telnet (and FTP) die a quiet death off on an ice flow 
somewhere.


> I was just giving the OP the benefit of the doubt :)

Understood.

..Chuck..

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