On 23 Dec 2000, at 13:25, David Preece wrote:
> At 15:37 22/12/00 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >The question asked is: why you believe ssh is beter
> >than say telnet. Or what advantages SSH has in general.
>
> Sorry, don't have time to reply to this properly.
>
> The main evil of ssh is that server authentication is not enforced, making
> mounting a man-in-the-middle attack basically trivial.
It is possible. It is not trivial.
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