[ale] Most Secure SSH

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:45:03PM -0400, David Corbin wrote:
> Is this reasonable? Am I missing something here? ASSUMING I pick good 
> passwords, is it fair to say that password-based access is more secure than 
> rsa keys?

In this setup yes.  It is like rsh.  If many of the machines trusted the
firewall then a hacker could easily access any machine with the rsa keys if
they got to the firewall.  Your internal network could treat the 
firewall as an untrusted machine and require password based authentication.


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