[WinPartners] Secure CRT 4.1.2 Release Effort Underway Announcement

[Bryant Christian Vernon]

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2004
To: MIT Community: itpartners at mit.edu, winpartners at mit.edu,
sw-release-announce at mit.edu, ed-tech at mit.edu
Cc: itag at mit.edu, is&t at mit.edu, kakapo at mit.edu 
From: Software Release Team
Subject: Secure CRT 4.1.2 Release Effort Underway Announcement 

Good Afternoon, 

I am pleased to announce that the Secure CRT 4.1.2 release effort has begun.
Secure CRT 4.1.2 is the latest version of Van Dyke's secure terminal
emulation program. 

Secure CRT allows users to securely connect to MIT (and other) servers using
the SSH2 protocol. This latest version of Secure CRT includes the ability to
authenticate with Kerberos 5 tickets.

New Features and Improvements to Secure CRT 4.1.2 include: 

-GSSAPI Support 
-Improved Integration with Secure FX 
-X11 forwarding: Encrypt X11 Windows sessions to secure remote X
applications that are being displayed on the local PC 
-Emacs mode: If you commonly use Emacs, you can configure your session to
use the ALT key as the meta key. 
-32,000-line scrollback 
-XTerm Emulation

For a complete list of new features, please reference the Secure CRT 4.1.2
features page: 
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/features_1.html.

The Software Release Team will send updates throughout the release process.
For more information on Secure CRT 4.1.2 and the release effort, see the
Secure CRT 4.1.2 release notebook at
http://web.mit.edu/swrt/releases/securecrt.

If you have questions, suggestions, or would like to participate in the
release of Secure CRT 4.1.2, please contact the team via email at
securecrt-release at mit.edu.

All the Best, 

Bryant C. Vernon
Secure CRT 4.1.2 Product Release Coordinator
Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology