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Re: Darn skiddies (ssh login attempts)



On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:11:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Nowadays user passwords often end up being stolen, not broken (trojans,
etc). Keys offer no degraded security in that scenario.

Wrong. It's much harder to force people to change keys than passwords.
It's not impossible, but the tools aren't as common and there's this
really unfortunate tendancy to think that keys are a magic bullet which
keeps people from using what tools do exist.

Mike Stone



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