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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2003 22:20:44 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sondre_R=F8njom?= <s1465@lstud.ii.uib.no>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is port 22 open by default? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072219110.17516-100000@havengel.ii.uib.no>

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On Wed, 7 May 2003, Daniela wrote:

> I was just wondering:
> Is SSH really so secure that it can be on by default?
> 
> I'm really paranoid, and I could sleep better if the answer was yes :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Daniela

Well, I guess that pretty much depends on how you define "so secure". If 
that means 100% secure, then you have a problem. Defining how difficult it 
is to break SSH also depends largly on you knowledge of 
computer networking, especially cryptography and how SSH is implemented in 
FreeBSD. I guess you should do a google search for all of this(Bruce 
Schneier has a relatively good book on Cryptography and Hill on Coding 
Theory) but for remote control of your computer I would prefer keeping 
port 22 and SSH because it is relatively secure in the end.

/sondre 




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