From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 14 14:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF03937B40C for ; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Jeian [4.34.234.82] by myrealbox.com with NIMS ModWeb Module; Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:24 -0400 Subject: Re: How safe is SSH? From: John Cantu To: marco@radzinschi.com, Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:24 -0400 X-Mailer: NIMS ModWeb Module X-Sender: Jeian MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <1003095444.65639ffaJeian@myrealbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, nothing is entirely secure, but SSH is a remarkably secure piece of s= oftware. If you want to be really secure, stick with SSH - I'd rather hav= e to download PuTTY onto my terminal that I'm using rather than leave my = system open to compromise. And it's definitely more secure than telnet, r= sh, rlogin, etc. John -----Original Message----- From: Marco Radzinschi To: FreeBDS-Questions Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 03:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: How safe is SSH? Hello: =09I have my firewall blocking port 23 (telnet), but allowing port 22 (SSH) to go through. Now, this causes _SOME_ inconveniene when connecting from crappy windows machines without a SSH client on them. My question, then, is how strong is SSH? Is it worth the extra trouble to not allow telnet? I know I will get the typical "NEVER use telnet," so I would like some figures as to how unbreakable SSH is. Thank you, Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 3:10AM up 9 days, 1 hr, 1 user, load averages: 1.01, 1.05, 1.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message