On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:38:10PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: > Den 2018-12-15 kl. 22:11, skrev Marc Balmer: > > Whatever. > > > > Please keep telnet and telnetd in base. They have their valid use cases. > > > Yes please. I have used both kerberized telnet and plain telnet last 12 > months frequently. > I don't think it's up to us try to tell people that "this SW may be insecure > and we don't trust you of not knowing that, so we'll remove it instead". > > I'm pretty sure that all users of telnet know what the implications are. > If they don't then it doesn't matter whether it is in base or not. > > -- Ragge
What's the deal wiht IPSEC? I've never used it, but I was under the impression it gives encryption for free for things that otherwise don't have it. Do all the programs need to have ipsec-specific goo to use it? telnet does, as well as having its own encryption code.
