From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 15 16:34:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from modgud.nordicrecords.com (h21-168-107.nordicdms.com [207.21.168.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F083D15028 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walton@nordicrecords.com) Received: (qmail 26446 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 1999 23:34:58 -0000 Message-ID: <19990815233458.26443.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> Received: (qmail 26432 invoked from network); 15 Aug 1999 23:34:58 -0000 Received: from adsl-216-103-90-137.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO walton) (216.103.90.137) by mail.nordicdms.com with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 23:34:58 -0000 From: "Dave Walton" To: nsayer@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:33:15 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ? Reply-To: walton@nordicrecords.com In-reply-to: <37B74041.F24CCFB4@quack.kfu.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Aug 99, at 15:33, Nick Sayer wrote: > True enough. You'd have to force your users to run 'passwd' once as a > conversion step, and you'd have to modify scripts like 'adduser' to > set up the new format. And on a fresh install you wouldn't even need to do that. > I can commit SRA into src/crypto/telnet immediately, if it is > appropriate to do so. Great. Fire off a quick note to Bill Clinton asking if it's ok. > It's a chicken and egg problem. But I am sure that if we build it, > they will come. But only if it comes by default and has no > overhead and works with legacy systems -- that is, it is a no > effort drop-in. People who type "telnet" will just magically see > that their session is encrypted without them doing anything different. > THAT'S the only way it will start to happen. Yup, which is why SRP is so attractive to me compared to SSH, Kerberos, and whatever other systems there are that I've never had time to learn how to use... Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Walton Webmaster, Postmaster Nordic Entertainment Worldwide walton@nordicdms.com http://www.nordicdms.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message