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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:00:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      opentrax@email.com
To:        dan@langille.org
Cc:        davep@afterswish.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
Message-ID:  <200012231000.CAA21431@spammie.svbug.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>

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On 23 Dec, Dan Langille 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.
> 
What leads you to believe that it's not trival?





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