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NEWS YOU CAN USE FROM VANDYKE SOFTWARE® Come on, admit it. You've been stealing spare moments to jot down your holiday gift list, just in case someone other than your mom wants to know. You haven't? Well then, what are you waiting for! OK, it's an outside chance, but just in case you had "explanation of Secure Shell host keys" on that list, we can give you your first holiday gift. Other trinkets from us to get you in the holiday mood: a printing tip, a report from IETF, and a sampling of recent security news (but no partridge in a pear tree). Since last month was quiet on the software releases front, check out the new releases section; it might be time for an update. ------------- 1. New Web Content – "Understanding Host Keys" White
Paper ----------------------------------------------------------- Here's a situation most of us have seen more than once: you point SecureCRT to a familiar Secure Shell server, connect, and up pops that daunting dialog asking you to accept or reject a new host key. If you have ever wished you understood those options better or just wondered what a host key was, then do we have a white paper for you. The new "Understanding Host Keys" white paper may be found on the Vandyke Software web site: http://www.vandyke.com/solutions/whitepapers.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- There are any number of times when it is useful to be able to print to a text file from SecureCRT. This can be accomplished by configuring SecureCRT to print to a Windows Generic/Text Only printer. This sends screen output from your session to a text file, which you can then print from Notepad or another Windows application. There are two components to configure. First you create a new Generic/Text Only printer from the Windows Printers control panel. This text-only printer is set to output to a file. Then you configure SecureCRT in Print Setup to print to the Generic/Text Only printer. This can be done for one session or globally. For complete step-by-step instructions on printing to a text file, visit the following page on our web site: http://www.vandyke.com/support/tips/nl112004.html --------------------------------- The 61st IETF just finished meeting on November 12 in Washington, DC. One of topics of discussion for the Secure Shell (secsh) working group was a new specification draft for the SSH File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP v6. SFTP is the standard file transfer protocol for use with the SSH2 protocol, providing secure file transfer functionality over any reliable data stream. Many of the changes in SFTP v6 provide greater predictability for server failure. In other words, if two different servers are faced with the same failure, what is reported to the client should be the same. This consistency is a great benefit to the smooth operation of automated processes and file system drivers. The SFTP v6 draft also specifies support for text-mode hints from servers
that are capable of providing these hints, which should allow the client
to know which files should be downloaded in text mode. Here are the major changes from SFTP v4 (currently shipping in VanDyke Software products) to SFTP v6:
Quite a bit of discussion went on during the drafting of SFTP v6. SFTP v6 resolves many outstanding issues, including UTF8 issues, present in previous specification drafts. This should allow wider implementation of SFTP v6. The SFTP v6 protocol specification is still undergoing revisions, but a new version will be available on the IETF web site in the next few weeks. To read the latest draft specification of SFTP v6 go to (clicking on this link will open a text file in a new browser window): http://www.vandyke.com/technology/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer.txt -------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some recent security news highlights, assembled by our roving news junkie Marc Orchant from his favorite RSS feeds. SearchSecurity.com: Home users threaten
enterprises http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1020937,00.html SANS Top Twenty list eWeek: Should you use passwords or passphrases? http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1682858,00.asp For further reading, here is a link to a three part article published by Microsoft on the relative merits and issues with passphrases and passwords for Windows authentication. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/secnews/articles/itproviewpoint091004.mspx NetworkWorldFusion: E-mail at a crossroads http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/110104email.html Microsoft Revises Antispam Plan http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,97030,00.html --------------------------------- A recent question posed on the forums was about a script terminating on a connect failure. The SecureCRT user was running a script to execute a command sequentially on multiple servers, and wanted to continue to the next server if SecureCRT generated a runtime error. The resulting thread shows how to trap errors of any kind in a VBscript with the "On Error Resume Next" statement so that they can be handled in a specified way. To read more and see an example of using the VBScript statement "On Error Resume Next" go to: http://forums.vandyke.com/showthread.php?t=271 ----------------------- Maintenance updates of official releases were made in late October to SecureCRT 4.1.9, SecureFX® 2.2.8, CRT™ 4.1.9, and AbsoluteFTP® 2.2.8. You can download new and previous releases at: http://www.vandyke.com/download/latestreleases.html --------------------------- The following lists the latest official product releases: The following lists the latest official product releases: To download any of our current releases, go to: http://www.vandyke.com/download/latestreleases.html All VanDyke Software products may be downloaded and evaluated free for 30 days. Licenses include one year of free upgrades and unlimited access to our expert technical support.
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