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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 03:14:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com>
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Subject: How safe is SSH?
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Hello:

	I 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


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