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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:16:03 -0700
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Ryan Thompson" <ryan@sasknow.com>, "William Nunn" <yorkie123@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Remotely Exploitable telnetd bug
Message-ID:  <002501c1256a$e846ce00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010815103807.D47417@sunbay.com>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru@FreeBSD.ORG]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:38 AM
>To: Greg Lehey
>Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Ryan Thompson; William Nunn;
>freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: Remotely Exploitable telnetd bug

>> 
>POP3 (RFC1725) supports the APOP command, which avoids the transmission
>of clear-text passwords over an insecure environment.  Also, various
>other authentication schemes are supported, see RFC1734 for details.
>

APOP is not supported by Outlook 98 or earlier or Eudora 4.3 or earlier.
It's probably also not supported by most UNIX mail clients either except in
the very latest versions.

>There are security extensions exist for FTP, see RFC2228 for details.
>lukemftpd (currently in contrib/lukemftpd) is going to support these,
>AFAIK.
>

It's going to be many years before even a quarter of the FTP clients in use
out there support these.


Ted Mittelstaedt                                       tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:                          http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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