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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2000 09:16:24 +0100
From:      Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proposed minor mod to openssh for interactive operation
Message-ID:  <39D995D8.14DD0721@algroup.co.uk>
References:  <200009300023.e8U0NUW20137@earth.backplane.com> <v04210103b5fe97d648bf@[128.113.24.47]> <200010030000.e9300o311655@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
> :>    two programs interactively.
> :>    That is, send command, wait response, send command, wait
> :>    response.  Delaying packets is a bad idea and cuts
> :>    performance over the link by about 20%.
> :
> :Would it be more appropriate to use stunnel (in ports) instead
> :of an ssh connection for your application?
> :
> :(I'm just wondering...)
> :---
> :Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
> 
>     No, ssh provides the authentication mechanism as well as the
>     secure link trivially.  Besides, both rsh and ssh were designed
>     for two-way operation so presumably they should actually do it
>     in a reasonably optimal manner when two-way operation is requested.

stunnel can do authentication just as trivially...
http://www.stunnel.org/faq/certs.html#ToC10

cheers,
Adam
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