Everhart, Glenn
From:	fairfield@sldb4.slac.stanford.edu
Sent:	Tuesday, March 09, 1999 9:24 PM
To:	Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject:	Re: Secure Telnet?
In article <36e5b824.0@nc01.norcom2000.com>, 
    	"Darren" <dparks@norcom2000.com> writes:
> Does anyone have any information on a secure telnet client for a VAX/VMS 6.2
> system other than Skey?

        To quote Steve  "Hoff"  Hoffman,  "Terse  questions  beget terse
    answers"...

        AFAIK, Skey is _not_ a  "secure  telnet client", nor a client at
    all.   Skey  is  one  of  several products  which  can  give  secure
    _authentication_, that is, not expose the  user's  password,  during
    the  initial login dialog.  These generally work by using a one-time
    password which, if captured, does the capturer no good.

        For secure, that is, encrypted telnet,  you'll want to look into
    the  VMS port(s) of SSH.  There is an SSH server being developed  at
    OSU by David Jones (of OSU HTTP Server  fame),  and  an  SSH  client
    called FISH being developed by Richard Levitte.  See,

        http://er6s1.eng.ohio-state.edu/~jonesd/ssh/

    and

        ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/fish005.zip


    	  -Ken
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