On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Not so much "fractionally less secure" as "insecure". If the machine > containing the private key is compromised so, potentially, is every > machine that the public key has been distributed too. Though if you want to prevent one machine's compromise from compromising another machine, set HashKnownHosts. Then, at least, people won't be able to guess your other machines once they've broken your current machine. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve@laniels.org Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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