Exploit Code Posted for SSH Flaws

[James Colannino]

Oh ok.  I have heard all that actually now that I think about it.  I just
couldn't remember what the protocol was called.  Thanks for explaining it to
me.

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at dattaway.org>
To: "James Colannino" <email2jamez at covad.net>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Exploit Code Posted for SSH Flaws

> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, James Colannino wrote:
>
> > What exactly is SSH? I've heard the term in the past, but am not
> > familiar with the protocol myself.
>
> ssh is a handy utility that allows us to login to another computer through
> an authenticated and encrypted connection.  It also lets us forward ports
> through this layer and run X-windows applications from anywhere just the
> same.  The ssh package also includes nifty utilities, such as sftp, which
> is a nice ftp package to make sure your files absolutely, positively get
> there without terrorists intercepting it.  Good stuff if you life depends
> on it.
>
> PuTTY is the ssh client that runs on Windows platforms.  To me, that means
> I can login to my linux box with any Windows box in the world with some
> sense of security.
>
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