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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: telnet vs ssh on Core equipment , looking for reasons why ?
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 [email protected] wrote: > > > Monkey in the Middle attack on SSH is very difficult to perform. I'm cc'ing > > Matt Bishop ([email protected]) who together with yours truly wrote a > > paper on this in 1997. > > Hard how? Are you talking about the complexity in coding the exploit app? > So what! It only has to be written once: Really? And does it work on all hosts, no matter how they are configured? Next... Alex > > SSHv1 > wget http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/dsniff-2.3.tar.gz > tar -zxf dsniff-2.3.tar.gz > man ./dsniff-2.3/sshmitm.8 > > The SSH security model is fundimentally weak against Man in the Middle, > because it provides no methodology to verify the transmitted key (beyond > crude manual methods... Not that PKI system used with SSL is all that > effective either). > > > >
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