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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:09:22 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Nick Cleaton <nick@cleaton.net>
Cc:        Chris Ryan <chrisryanemail@yahoo.com.au>
Subject:   Re: Attacks on ssh port
Message-ID:  <xzp1xgt5rv1.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040923072912.GK5340@lt1.cleaton.net> (Nick Cleaton's message of "Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:29:12 %2B0200")
References:  <20040923045229.GJ5340@lt1.cleaton.net> <20040923070809.14655.qmail@web51010.mail.yahoo.com> <20040923072912.GK5340@lt1.cleaton.net>

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Nick Cleaton <nick@cleaton.net> writes:
> I want access to my system from any IP address, so I've patched my
> sshd so that a secret token is required to connect.  Kinda like
> using an obscure port, only more so :)
> [...]
> An alternative that avoids that would be to run something out of
> inetd that reads the token and then execs sshd.

Look up "replay attack" on google...

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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