Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 16:35:54 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: David Preece <davep@afterswish.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!? Message-ID: <20001222163554.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 01:32:36PM %2B1300 References: <200012222337.PAA20885@spammie.svbug.com> <5.0.0.25.1.20001223132307.01b00b70@pop3.i4free.co.nz> <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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* Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> [001222 16:33] wrote: > 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. No, it's practically impossible when correct precautions are taken. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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