On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:42:07 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Odhiambo
Washington) wrote:
>
>Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it.
>Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should
use
>it?
Depends how you rate security over convenience.
I have used i
S/Key is a pretty nifty way of sending garbled passwords over cleartext means
(telnet). It was sort of a pre-cursor to ssh. Although widely used still,
it is somewhat obsolete...but then, one can never be too paranoid, right? :)
So, let me 'splain...
| Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff.
Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it.
Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use
it?
This is what happens:
wash@ns2 ('tty') ~ 479 -> ssh newhost
otp-md5 105 ba3562 ext
S/Key Password:
otp-md5 172 ba9156 ext
S/Key Password:
otp-md5
