Re: ssh password cracker - now this *is* cool!

[Harold Gutch]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:47:15PM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote:
> :* Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010822 18:30] wrote:
> :>     This gets an 'A' on my cool-o-meter.
> :> 
> :>    http://www.vnunet.com/News/1124839
> :
> :Interesting, I guess one could work around it by periodically
> :sending bogus empty packets in the middle of activity.
> 
>     Yah, and typing backspaces also ought to work.  12345bb45bb45678b8<return>


Dug Song and Solar Designer held a talk on this topic at HAL 2001,
where they stated that backspaces could be detected, as a
backspace actually translated to <Cursorleft><Space><Cursorleft>
thus sending 3 characters at a time instead of only 1.


bye,
  Harold

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