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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! 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
