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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:28:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jason Stone <jason@shalott.net>
To:        Zvezdan Petkovic <zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU>
Cc:        <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: It's time for those 2048-, 3072-, and 4096-bit keys?
Message-ID:  <20020401002447.K2704-100000@walter>
In-Reply-To: <20020330210748.A1609@dali.cs.wm.edu>

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> > Well, for one, the fact that you can't copy from one remote host to
> > another.
>
> Wrong, you _CAN_ copy between two remote hosts.
> scp man page says in the second paragraph of DESCRIPTION:
>
> Any file name may contain a host and user specification to indicate that
> the file is to be copied to/from that host.  Copies between two remote
> hosts are permitted.
>
> scp my.office.machine:file.pdf my.home.machine:

Yes, but it's not what you think - when you did this, what actually
happened was that the client on the machine you started from did:
ssh my.office.machine "scp file.pdf my.home.machine:"
That is to say, you really just copied the file from office to home
without it ever touching the machine in the middle.  So if the two end
machines can't see each other, this won't work.  And if you can't arrange
to get the password/key/passphrase for the home machine from the middle
machine to the office machine, this won't work.


 -Jason

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