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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.

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