Michael W. Ryan on Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:08:20 -0400 (EDT)


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[Plug] Re: telnet login


No, the telnet login is *NOT* encrypted.  I just verified this by sniffing
my own packets, and I was able to read my password in the telnet packet
data.  Granted, it was divided up between packets, but it was there.

Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT     | OTAKON 1999
mryan@netaxs.com              | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/

PGP fingerprint: 7B E5 75 7F 24 EE 19 35  A5 DF C3 45 27 B5 DB DF
PGP public key available by fingering mryan@unix.netaxs.com (use -l opt)


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