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DeviceMaster Installation and Configuration Guide: 2000594 Rev. A

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Security Comparison

Security
Comparison

This table displays addition information about security feature comparisons.

Enable Monitoring Secure Data via Telnet must be enabled. SSH does not
support port monitoring. You can set the securemon enable option.

admin commands are disabled except for read-only ID command required by
NS-Link to identify the device.

The intention is to allow NS-Link to operate through an SSL connection to Port
4606 while is in Secure Data Mode, and to allow NS-Link to operate through a MAC
connection with Secure Config Mode enabled and Secure Data Mode disabled.

SSH Server

The DeviceMaster SSH server has the following characteristics:

Requires password authentication – even if password is empty.

Enabled/disabled along with telnet access independently of Secure Data and
Secure Config Modes.

The DeviceMaster uses third-party MatrixSSH library from PeerSec
Networks:

http://www.peersec.com/

.

Weakest

Strongest

0

1

2

3

3

4

Supported by

None Password

Authentication Secure Config

Secure Data

Key & Certificate

RedBoot

yes

yes

yes

no

yes

no

SocketServer yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

NS-Link Driver/MAC yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

NS-Link Driver/IP

yes

yes

yes

yes

Serial Monitoring

yes

yes

yes

no

yes †

no

TCP to Serial Ports

yes

yes

yes

no

no

no

SSH to Serial Ports

no

no

no

yes

yes

yes

UDP to Serial Ports

yes

yes

yes

disabled

disabled

disabled

Telnet/Port23

yes

yes

yes

disabled

yes †

disabled

SSH Telnet/Port 22

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

Telnet Port 4607

yes

yes

yes

disabled

yes

yes

SSH (PuTTY) 4607

no

no

no

yes

disabled

disabled

HTTP (Port 80)

yes

yes

yes

disabled

disabled

disabled

HTTPS (Port 443)

no

no

no

yes

yes

yes

Email

yes

yes

yes

disabled

disabled

disabled

SNMP

yes

yes

yes

disabled

disabled

disabled

RFC1006

yes

yes

yes

disabled

disabled

disabled

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