Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:52:45 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Sondre =?iso-8859-1?q?R=F8njom?= <s1465@lstud.ii.uib.no>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is port 22 open by default? (fwd) Message-ID: <200305072252.45616.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072219110.17516-100000@havengel.ii.uib.no> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305072219110.17516-100000@havengel.ii.uib.no>
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On Wednesday 07 May 2003 20:20, Sondre R=F8njom wrote: > 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. Well, I'm experienced enough to know that nothing is 100% secure, I just=20 wanted to know if there are really trivial holes in SSH (I'm still a newbie= ). That question is now answered, thanks for replying! Daniela
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