> From: "Parks, Raymond" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Passwords > > Folks, > > I decided to put my advice about securing home networks in this message, > along with password advice. ....
Ray: Would not trust a PKI system (openssh) with passwords disabled? What sort of vulnerability would it face .. other than someone stealing the private key? I had naively assumed it would be secure, and planned a set of tunnels for screen sharing, file sharing, and ssh. That's basically my goal: having lots of devices share resources like screen (VNC) and data (ftp/ssh). The port-knocking scheme seems very interesting and there is a command-line client/daemon for several OSs: http://www.zeroflux.org/projects/knock I completely agree the limited password symbols/length of many sites make things a lot harder. Given some reasonable pass-phrase with unique modification for each site makes a lot of sense, but unfortunately the differing passwords allowed makes this impossible. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
