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From: "Scott Gerhardt" <scott@gerhardt-it.com>
To: "Marco Radzinschi" <marco@radzinschi.com>,
	"FreeBDS-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: How safe is SSH?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:28:18 -0600
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You can get PUTTY SSH client for windows (98,ME,NT,Win2K), and it's free.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

The PUTTY console is much better than the windows telnet console too.

Now you can exclusively use SSH  (and disable telnet in inetd.conf) without
any hassle.

	- Scott


   > -----Original Message-----
   > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
   > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Marco
   > Radzinschi
   > Sent: October 14, 2001 1:15 AM
   > To: FreeBDS-Questions
   > Subject: How safe is SSH?
   >
   >
   > 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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