telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?

Wed Aug 1 06:08:51 UTC 2001

> From: Rafi Sadowsky [mailto:rafi-nanog at meron.openu.ac.il]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:43 PM
> 
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Kevin Steves wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > > :6) Finding a unix ssh that supports 3DES and DES.
> 
>  DES(not 3DES) is a compile time option for SSH1
> (default is not to support DES)
> 
>  Try to convince to person in charge of SSH that even 
> SSH1+DES while weak
> is much better than cleartext tel-net ....

SSH1, properly deployed, is not all that weak and scads better than (any
version) telnet.