From owner-freebsd-security Tue Mar 19 12:10:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF3637B42A for ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:09:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (lcl234.zbzoom.net [208.236.36.234]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2JKBwq31511; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:11:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C979D68.5060609@pittgoth.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:19:52 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes Reply-To: darklogik@pittgoth.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Chris Johnson , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Safe SSH logins from public, untrusted Windows computers References: <20020319144538.A42969@palomine.net> <20020319195119.GI455@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Chris Johnson [020319 11:45] wrote: > [snip] > >>Does anyone have any comments, or does anyone have a better idea? >> > > Once you load the key onto the machine and type your passphrase in you've > done as good as just typing your password into it. > > Don't use untrusted machines or get something like secure-ID that > does one-time passwords. Even with one time passwords you never know > if someone with control over the machine is sitting there waiting for > you to grab a cup of coffee in order to take control of your session > and do nasties. :( don't drink coffee, or logout before getting the coffee, or just bring it to the system with you ;) > > So I guess it boils down to: > "Don't use untrusted machines." > > Thats a good idea though ;) -- Tom (Darklogik) Rhodes www.Pittgoth.com Gothic Liberation Front www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message