OT: SSH With Public/Private Key Authenification

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Walker" <ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com>

> Would like to ask the lists opinion. Is using SSH with a
> public/private key authentification scheme a pretty good way to have a 
> secure connection from my windows vista pc to a Linux serve.

Well, the answer to that depends a lot on what aspects of your connection
you're trying to secure, but, overall, using an SSH capable terminal emulator
with a private key file secured by a reasonably long passphrase, and the SSHv2
protocol, with no known unfixed bugs on either program, is a reasonably good
way both to control access to the server, and to prevent eavesdropping on your
sessions, yes.

Hardware or software keystroke loggers on the Vista client, of course, will
expose your passphrase to an attacker...

Cheers,
-- jra
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