Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 02:00:54 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com To: dan@langille.org Cc: davep@afterswish.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!? Message-ID: <200012231000.CAA21431@spammie.svbug.com> In-Reply-To: <200012230032.NAA13382@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On 23 Dec, Dan Langille wrote: > On 23 Dec 2000, at 13:25, David Preece wrote: > >> 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. > > It is possible. It is not trivial. > What leads you to believe that it's not trival? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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