Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:39:07 +0200 From: 520066542279-0001@t-online.de (Harold Gutch) To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool! Message-ID: <20010825223907.A44732@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <200108222347.f7MNlF781161@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700 References: <200108222330.f7MNUUj80882@earth.backplane.com> <20010822183807.T81307@elvis.mu.org> <200108222347.f7MNlF781161@earth.backplane.com>
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > :* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [010822 18:30] wrote: > :> This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter. > :> > :> http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839 > : > :Interesting, I guess one could work around it by periodically > :sending bogus empty packets in the middle of activity. > > Yah, and typing backspaces also ought to work. 12345bb45bb45678b8<return> Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001, where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a backspace actually translated to <Cursorleft><Space><Cursorleft> thus sending 3 characters at a time instead of only 1. bye, Harold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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