From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 6 14:29:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (bgm-24-169-166-7.stny.rr.com [24.169.166.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3AF37B43A for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 14:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g46LR3c7072314; Mon, 6 May 2002 17:27:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g46LR3kg072311; Mon, 6 May 2002 17:27:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 17:27:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota To: Miguel Mendez Cc: SolarfluX , Subject: Re: cvsup/install over ssh? In-Reply-To: <20020506231634.A33284@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: <20020506172523.K71568-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 6 May 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > Hmmkay, let me get this straight, you want to encrypt an anon ftp > session? And the purpose would be? It's publicly available data you are > transfering to your box, why in the world would you want to encrypt it? I suppose that someone could be watching your ftp traffic, and know you've installed FreeBSD. Then, no matter how much you obsfucate what your OS looks like, they'll know it might be FreeBSD. :) -- Matt Piechota To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message