Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:32:36 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!? Message-ID: <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.1.20001223132307.01b00b70@pop3.i4free.co.nz> References: <200012222337.PAA20885@spammie.svbug.com>
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On 23 Dec 2000, at 13:25, David Preece wrote: > At 15:37 22/12/00 -0800, you wrote: > > >The question asked is: why you believe ssh is beter > >than say telnet. Or what advantages SSH has in general. > > Sorry, don't have time to reply to this properly. > > The main evil of ssh is that server authentication is not enforced, making > mounting a man-in-the-middle attack basically trivial. It is possible. It is not trivial. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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