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----- Original Message ----- From: "Roeland Meyer" <[email protected]> To: "'Charles Sprickman'" <[email protected]>; "Jared Mauch" <[email protected]> Cc: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:59 PM Subject: RE: telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ? > > > From: Charles Sprickman [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:41 AM > > > 6) Finding a unix ssh that supports 3DES and DES. > > > > I curse those OpenSSH folks for making me have to trudge > > through the code > > to find out how to get DES working... > > > > 6a) Finding a release on CCO that supports 3DES. > > You are probably aware, but EFF published the DES crack. I understand that > it is now an issue of cracking DES in less than 12 hours. 3DES is better > but it only amounts to DES with a 128-bit key. > > Definitely a limited shelf-live. I don't see why we even need to discuss some of these issues to this length. Telnet = Bad = Plain Text SSH = Better = Some Sort of Encryption (A Decoder Ring is Still better than plain text)
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