Re: Do we have standards available for scp ??

[Markus Friedl <markus%openbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 12:04:24PM -0500, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> Frankly, it would be also good to document RCP and to have a lengthy
> description of why RCP is a bad idea operationally (e.g. list of
> security risks with RCP) and even suggest using SCP instead (to
> reduce security risks).

But SCP == RCP (the protocols), so either _both_ are secure
or _none_.

> That's a bit outside this WG's charter
> (potentially, subject to WG Chair decision), whereas documenting SCP
> sufficiently to write an interoperable implementation from the RFC
> would seem clearly within this WG's charter (also subject to WG Chair
> decision).

Well, documenting SCP means documenting RCP.