[Cialug] rdp client

[david l goodrich]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:02:08 -0500, Jeff Davis <jdavis at geolearning.com>
wrote:
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> FIPS = Federal Information Processing Standards.
> Government stuff.....and all that THAT implies. ;-)
> 
> I'm not an expert in this, but my understanding
> is that it requires only 'approved' cryptographic
> ciphers be used, and other requirements like that.
> There's more than you ever want to know about it
> at http://www.nist.gov

Well, sure, I know what FIPS is.  But what does "FIPS mode" mean to
Windows?  There are a LOT of FIPS standards, does this mean Windows thinks
it's following the standards?  Which ones?
  --david


> 
> I need to connect to some windows boxes that
> have been forced into FIPS mode via GPO.
> 
> 
> - -Jeff
> 
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> david l goodrich wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:17:04PM -0500, Jeff Davis wrote:
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>>> Does anyone know of an RDP client for linux
>>> that I can use to RDP into windows boxes
>>> that are running in FIPS mode?
>>
>> Okay, I'll bite.  What's FIPS mode?
>>   --david
>>
>>
>>> (So far I've not been able to get krdc or tsclient
>>>  to successfully connect on one of these machines.)
>>>
>>> - -Jeff
>>>
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