[Info-vax] Rethinking DECNET ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ltv5ph$tee$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2014-08-31, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>> In article <ltscu4$1le$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>>On 2014-08-30, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>>> DECNET offers some neat stuff and security.
>>>>
>>>
>>>DECnet most certainly does _not_ offer security - it's an unencrypted
>>>data stream.
>>
>> Just like TCP/IP.
>>
> 
> DECnet is a whole range of protocols just like TCP/IP is and while
> the basic TCP and IP layers do not have encryption built in, there
> are other layers, within the protocol stack, which do give you that
> capability. You can even choose per-site or per-session encryption
> as you wish.
> 
> DECnet has no such equivalent to those protocol layers.
> 

According to the Web (and we all know you can't lie on the INTERNET)
SSH is implemented at the Transport layer.  That's the one that is
actually shared by both TCP/IP and the OSI model.  :-)

bill

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