Re: Tera Term Pro

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 04/23/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:35:27 GMT

In article <zBix8.147451$3L2.13154078@bin7.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>,
Steven Whatley <swhatley@blkbox.com> wrote:
>I've been a long time user of Tera Term Pro until Today. Our IT security
>person came by to see me. It seems their new network monitoring tool
>called OneSecure was flagging my telnet traffic. It seems that Tera Term
>Pro uses a protocol slightly outside the normal telnet RPC standard.

What the heck does "telnet RPC standard" mean? TELNET is not based on any
form of RPC (Remote Procedure Call), and in fact predates most RPC
protocols by decades.

>After talking to the IT person we came to the conclusion that this
>deviation can be used by hackers to more easily track telnet sessions of
>Tera Term Pro users.
>
>Any comments?

TELNET is just ordinary TCP/IP traffic. It's not secured in any way, no
matter what client you use, unless you're using a client and server that
support an encryption option (but these days, SSH has mostly replaced
TELNET and RLOGIN as the secure remote login protocol). 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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