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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: [OT] RE: telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?
You are forgetting about the people who build hardware just to crack this. I think the important thing here is to use good security practices when connecting to your routers/equipment. The second thing that is even *more* important is insuring that your vendor makes it easy to access images that can use secure connection methods. - Jared On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:15:47AM -0400, Greg Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > > > 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. > > 2^128/2^56 * 12hrs = 6.46 * 10^18 years > > I take it that you plan on living a lot longer then I do? > -- Jared Mauch | pgp key available via finger from [email protected] clue++; | http://puck.nether.net/~jared/ My statements are only mine.
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