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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 1999 16:33:15 -0700
From:      "Dave Walton" <walton@nordicrecords.com>
To:        nsayer@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whither makefiles for src/crypto/telnet/* ?
Message-ID:  <19990815233458.26443.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com>
In-Reply-To: <37B74041.F24CCFB4@quack.kfu.com>

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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.  
<grumble>

> 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


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