Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:20:44 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sondre_R=F8njom?= <s1465@lstud.ii.uib.no> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is port 22 open by default? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072219110.17516-100000@havengel.ii.uib.no>
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On Wed, 7 May 2003, Daniela wrote: > I was just wondering: > Is SSH really so secure that it can be on by default? > > I'm really paranoid, and I could sleep better if the answer was yes :-) > > Regards, > Daniela Well, I guess that pretty much depends on how you define "so secure". If that means 100% secure, then you have a problem. Defining how difficult it is to break SSH also depends largly on you knowledge of computer networking, especially cryptography and how SSH is implemented in FreeBSD. I guess you should do a google search for all of this(Bruce Schneier has a relatively good book on Cryptography and Hill on Coding Theory) but for remote control of your computer I would prefer keeping port 22 and SSH because it is relatively secure in the end. /sondre
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