[svlug] multiple sessions in one telnet

[Rick Moen]

begin  Ray Olszewski quotation:
 
> Ok, joking aside ... it's seemed to me for some time now that the only
> reason telnet survives is because the Neandertal US encryption-is-munitions
> export law forces ssh to be a user-installed add in. Debian comes closest
> (that I know of) to making this easy, but even it hasn't been able to shipp
> SHH on CDs. 

Things will inprove somewhat, with expiry of the RSA patent in the USA,
on 2000-09-20.  (Don't forget to exchange your buggy, slow, insecure,
and still-proprietary RSADSI libs for OpenSSL, on that date.  

Aside from that, the software-coverage picture gets better all the time:

Highest protocol version supported in software that is:
              Straight      Gratis-Usage for  Unconditional  
              Proprietary   Non-Commercial    Gratis-usage   Open-source
[1]
              -----------   --------------    ------------   -----------
Clients       
=======        
Amiga OS         1.5             1.5               none         none
BeOS              -              1.5               none         none
Java              -               -                none         1.5 [2]
Macintosh OS     2.0              -                1.5          none
MS-DOS            -               -                1.5? [3]
OpenVMS           -               -                 -           1.5
OS/2             2.0             1.5               none         none
PalmOS            -               -                1.5          none
Unix             2.0             2.0                -           2.0
Win16            2.0             1.4               none         none
Win32            2.0             2.0               1.5          2.0
WinCE            1.5             none               -           none

Servers         
=======          
OpenVMS           -               -                 -           1.5
OS/2              -              1.5               none         none
Unix             2.0             2.0               none         2.0
Win32             -              2.0               none         2.0

The constituent packages are detailed in my list at 
http://linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/security/ssh-clients .

[1] As is defined by the Open Source Initiative at
http://www.opensource.org/osd.html .  The three columns leftwards are
breakdowns of all non-open-source categories, i.e., different classes of 
proprietary licences.

[2] Mats Andersson says MindTerm will soon support secsh 2.0.

[3] 3DES and blowfish only, so far.

-- 
Cheers,                        "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse."  
Rick Moen                                                  -- D. Gale
rick (at) linuxmafia.com