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Re: [cobalt-security] SSHd
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] SSHd
- From: Eugene Crosser <crosser@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:40:34 +0300
- Organization: Average
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
On 09 Jan 2002 15:04:33 -0800
Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 14:07, John Adair wrote:
> >
> > I noticed that the Qube 3 comes with netkit and telnetd. Does anyone know
> > why SUN has not switched over to SSH instead of telnet? It seems odd SUN
> > would supply the telnetd when we have other secure alternatives this day in
> > age.
>
> Mostly due to export controls in place by the government. It takes
> allot of legal maneuvering to get the rights to ship a product with
> encryption over 128k.
128bit you probably mean.
Does not look logical to me: Apache that ships with Cobalt has
encryption, so why ssh (and s/pop s/imap for that matter) could not?
Eugene