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Subject: [OT] SSH vs. SSL wrappers (was: Postfix + ssh == _great_ mobile email!)
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 08:19:25 CST

Bennett Todd <betrahul.net> writes:

> I have stunnel, it's a dandy little piece of glue, but it's not
> clear to me that it'd be as appealing as a persistent ssh
> connection, doing port forwarding, with compression.

What you use is a matter of taste, greatly. If you can take a notebook
with you and can maintain persistent connections, SSH wins. If you get
to work at a foreign machine behind tight firewalls, SSL is the thing
that can win since you can use Netscape with SSL-IMAP. Depends on the
situation. Some company uses to filter outbound SSH traffic while
letting Telnet through...

BTW: does SSL really not implement compression? I never checked. If it
does not, that's a disadvantage, cryptologically. Redundance is never
good.

Anyways, my intention was to contribute parts of the picture, not to
discuss taste. 

-- 
Matthias Andree