Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:09:34 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stian_=D8vrev=E5ge?= <sovrevage@gmail.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh security Message-ID: <bf68260705031804093770699f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <423ABD5F.5010007@noconname.org> References: <20050318112317.GA35516@lothlorien.nagual.st> <423ABD5F.5010007@noconname.org>
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Another problem is the Man-in-the-Middle problem, where you are led to believe that you are communicating with your home-computer, but your session is relayed on through a decrypting/encrypting gateway which is under someone else's controll. To counteract this, you should obtain your home-computer's SSH fingerprint, and verify that this is in fact the machine you are connecting to when launching putty at school. Regards, Stian On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:37:03 +0100, Jos=E9 Nicol=E1s Castellano <jncastellano@noconname.org> wrote: > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >=20 > >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). >=20 > 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... >=20 > -- > Jose Nicolas Castellano > Presidente - Asociaci=F3n No cON Name > Tel: +34 616 727 675 > E-Mail : jncastellano@noconname.org > WWW: www.noconname.org >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 >=20 >
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