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Network-level password encryption?

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The Question is:

 
A customer is worried about the security of passwords passed via a telnet
network session. Is there any way of encrypting the VMS user password which
is transfered via telnet over the network, so that it cannot be read via a
network sniffer device.

The Answer is :

 
  Only via an encrypting bridge or tunnel or firewall, or via the
  use of a one-time password, or equivalent network crypto.
 


  

     
     
answer written or last revised on ( 15-OCT-1999 )

     
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