On 06/07/15, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK>  AI> Is there a more secure telnet, on port 995 or somesuch?
 MK> 
 MK> I think Debian had a version way back when but I haven't heard about it
 MK> in well over a decade now.  Also saw some howtos years ago that used ssl
 MK> tunneling to provide a stock telnet with ssl encryption.  Also, also
 MK> libssh might have something worth investigating along these lines.

Yep, I was messing with it at one time. I think it would fall back to regular
telnet if that needed to be. I'll have to look at all that again.

 MK>  AI> As far as ftn transfers go I think binkd is secure
 MK> 
 MK> Seems good enough for my needs ... and then some.  Also like you say,
 MK> supported pretty well across the board so the possibilty of someone in
 MK> Windows world potentially duplicating what we're playing around with ...

Dunno why they would do something like that but they do.. ;)

 MK> given that they can tolerate it's gui lameness that is.  ;-)

I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't come up with a pretty interface for
binkd one day, but even if they did I just daemonize it at look at the logs if
the need arises.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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