I'll bite, how is ssh not secure? Aside from a fewl misconfigging their
client of course...
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> > As for secure FTP - why not use ssh (sftp)?
> >
>
> Because contray to popular belief, SSH is not secure. It may provide
> privacy against passive attacks, but it does not provide for secure
> authentication of the host; nor does SSH implement an authentication
> mechanism that can be centrally managed and protect users from their
> insecure client operating systems.
>
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