From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 11:37:29 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803CC16A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:37:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from demon.noconname.org (19.Red-80-26-109.pooles.rima-tde.net [80.26.109.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49DD543D41 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:37:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jncastellano@noconname.org) Received: from [192.168.0.11] (unknown [192.168.0.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by demon.noconname.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4236435CE; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:34:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <423ABD5F.5010007@noconname.org> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:37:03 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Nicol=E1s_Castellano?= Organization: No cON Name User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dick Hoogendijk , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050318112317.GA35516@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050318112317.GA35516@lothlorien.nagual.st> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070005080401070404030503" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: ssh security X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jncastellano@noconname.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:37:29 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070005080401070404030503 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >I log in from a remote windows computer on my school using PuTTY w/ >ssh2. What I'd like to know is how *safe* is the login from this windows >machine? I mean, can my login to my FreeBSD server at home be >*monitored* by someone while I'm using this windows machine at work? >Can the keystrokes that I use *in* PuTTY be seen by anybody on this >windows network at work. If so, what can I do about it to be more safe? > >I would like to be able to login to my home computer without being >worried about some sneaky system operator at work (school) ;-) > > Mmm. Ssh only can *certificate* you that no one is capturing trafic between server and client (freebsd and putty), ssh stablishes a ciphred tunnel consistent in a two keys (private and public). Ssh client ( or putty in your case ) don't *warranty* if your computer client is running a keylogger or a trojan horse. If client is keylogged or trojaned you are died :-D, buy an antivirus or something for M$ Platforms. In *nix systems, relay to the administrator... -- Jose Nicolas Castellano Presidente - Asociación No cON Name Tel: +34 616 727 675 E-Mail : jncastellano@noconname.org WWW: www.noconname.org --------------070005080401070404030503--