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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