Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:12:37 -0600 (CST) From: Shawn Leas <sleas@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> To: Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl> Cc: Martijn Koster <mak@excite.com>, Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh and scp Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980318151116.14423B-100000@mn26hp6.honeywell.com> In-Reply-To: <19980318133321.A23040@asterix.urc.tue.nl>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Jos Backus wrote: > Hello Martijn, > > On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 11:44:01AM +0000, Martijn Koster wrote: > > > What prevents somebody from storing my public key in his ~/.ssh/identity.pub > > > and logging into server as me? > > > > The fact that only _you_ have your private key (~/.ssh/identity), with > > which you essentially prove the corresponding public key is yours. > > OK, this check is what I was missing in this picture. I wonder how this > verification process works, though. If I have a person's public key, how can > this person (using his private key) prove to me that it indeed is his? > > [Maybe we should take this thread out of -questions...] What you need is to subscribe to the cypherpunks mailing list. It's archived at one of the major sites. Just do a search on Yahoo, you'll find it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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