On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Angelin Lalev <lalev.ange...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm doing some research into ssh and its underlying cryptographic > methods and I have questions. I don't know whom else to ask and humbly > ask for forgiveness if I'm way OT. > > So, SSH uses algorithms like ssh-dss or ssh-rsa to do key exchange. > These algorithms can defeat any attempts on eavesdropping, but cannot > defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. To defeat them, some pre-shared > information is needed - key fingerprint. > > If hypothetically someone uses instead of the plain text > authentication some challenge-response scheme, based on user's > password or even a hash of user's password would ssh be able to avoid > the need the user to have key fingerprints of the server prior the > first connection?
Hypothetically, SSH could use a zero-knowledge authentication method such as SRP[1]. Until new code is written for ssh to take advantage of something like this, we're stuck with what's available. -- Noel Jones [1] http://srp.stanford.edu/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
