Re: File transfer using ssh
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:08:51PM +0200, Samu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 06:13:04PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
> > Philipp Schulte <pschulte@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > You should never be too lazy to log in as a user and su to root.
> >
> > su to root: 8 character password.
> > ssh directly as root: 1024 bit RSA key.
> >
> > Which one is easiest to crack?
> >
> ssh
> try sshmitm in dsniff package ... :-))
> key exchanging is not make it in a secure manner
It is secure when you have put the public key on the remote machine
already. SSH is only vulnerable to man-in-the-middle when you first
connect to a host, and accept the host-key.
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Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack
my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
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