From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Fri May 15 08:32:29 1998 Received: from lohi.clinet.fi (lohi.clinet.fi [194.100.0.7]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03442; Fri, 15 May 1998 08:32:28 +0300 (EET DST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by lohi.clinet.fi (8.8.8/8.8.6) id IAA25995 for ssh-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 08:11:05 +0300 (EEST) X-Authentication-Warning: lohi.clinet.fi: majordom set sender to owner-ssh@clinet.fi using -f Received: from cornpuffs.cisco.com (cornpuffs-hme0.cisco.com [171.69.63.46]) by lohi.clinet.fi (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA25990 for ; Fri, 15 May 1998 08:10:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from zipper.cisco.com (zipper.cisco.com [171.69.63.31]) by cornpuffs.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.2-SunOS.5.5.1.sun4/8.6.5) with SMTP id WAA09460; Thu, 14 May 1998 22:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:09:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Vilhuber Reply-To: Jan Vilhuber To: Paul_Socolow@condenast.com cc: Ssh Mailing List Subject: Re: SSH and Cisco IOS In-Reply-To: <6j9io4$bd5$1@burns.condenast.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk On 12 May 1998 Paul_Socolow@NOSPAMcondenast.com wrote: > > Does anyone have any info on the possibility of ssh support in a future > version of IOS? I've already posted on the Cisco newsgroup, but got no > response. > Ssh support in IOS is on the roadmap, although I can't give you an exact date. > It seems like it would be a good idea for Cisco to use it, since they > now transmit passwords in the clear. > Of course it's not just IOS that passes passwords in the clear, but we are well aware of the problem. Kerberos is one way of protecting yourself, as is using a crypto IOS release. The marketting people say that in their opinion, IPSec is the long-term solution. I think Ssh will be usefull for quite a while, still. Out of curiosity: Which cisco mailing list did you post to, where you got no reply? jan -- Jan Vilhuber Cisco Systems, San Jose