Looking for sshlib.py

[Donn Cave]

||On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 09:47:05PM +0000, John Leach wrote:
||> I'm looking to write a Python frontend for character-based applications
||> accessed via the internet.
||> telnet works well but I'd like something with more security (telnet sends
||> its password unencrypted I believe).
||> I'll try calling ssh from within Python and see if that helps.
...
| I second the ssh/scp recommendation, however that telnet clients do not
| encrypt passwords is an overgeneralization.  Some telnet clients support
| password encryption (e.g. via Kerberos or SRP).  No comment on how
| secure/insure their encryption methods are, but it's better than
| plaintext. ;-)

Just to pick a nit, Kerberos doesn't really send your password on the
net, even encrypted, it uses the password in the cryptography but not
in the actual encrypted data.  Anyway, it would be a interesting project
to get that into telnetlib.py (not to be ironic, it would be interesting.)

	Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
	donn at u.washington.edu