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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:25:11 +1300
From:      David Preece <davep@afterswish.com>
To:        opentrax@email.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.1.20001223132307.01b00b70@pop3.i4free.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <200012222337.PAA20885@spammie.svbug.com>

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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.

As ever, IMHO.
Dave :)




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