* Marco Moock: > On 24.02.2026 05:05 [email protected] [email protected] wrote: > >> Who uses telnet anyway? It's deprecated. Everyone uses ssh for any >> kind of remote access. > > In certain situations telnet is still being used, because it is > supported on a wide range of systems, regardless of key (exchange) > algorithms or hash algorithms.
Part of that is that the industry has moved to a threat model where it is considered more secure to use an unauthenticated, unencrypted channel rather than one that uses (for example) an HMAC based on SHA-1 for integrity protection. Thanks, Florian
