Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:37:24 -0400 From: John Cantu <Jeian@myrealbox.com> To: marco@radzinschi.com, Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: How safe is SSH? Message-ID: <1003095444.65639ffaJeian@myrealbox.com>
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Well, nothing is entirely secure, but SSH is a remarkably secure piece of s= oftware. If you want to be really secure, stick with SSH - I'd rather hav= e to download PuTTY onto my terminal that I'm using rather than leave my = system open to compromise. And it's definitely more secure than telnet, r= sh, rlogin, etc. John -----Original Message----- From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: FreeBDS-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 03:14:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: How safe is SSH? Hello: =09I have my firewall blocking port 23 (telnet), but allowing port 22 (SSH) to go through. Now, this causes _SOME_ inconveniene when connecting from crappy windows machines without a SSH client on them. My question, then, is how strong is SSH? Is it worth the extra trouble to not allow telnet? I know I will get the typical "NEVER use telnet," so I would like some figures as to how unbreakable SSH is. Thank you, Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com AOL IM: CrackedBoy Running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 3:10AM up 9 days, 1 hr, 1 user, load averages: 1.01, 1.05, 1.03 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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