Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 00:14:17 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: opentrax@email.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!? Message-ID: <200012231114.AAA16241@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200012231000.CAA21431@spammie.svbug.com> References: <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On 23 Dec 2000, at 2:00, opentrax@email.com wrote: > 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? You are the one claiming it is trivial. The onus is on you to prove your own claim. Or conversely, prove me wrong. I'm not feeding you. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ NZ Broadband - http://unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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