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RE: [cobalt-security] re: Telnet security



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Sculthorpe [mailto:sculthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 April 2001 15:16

> SSH1 logins can also be sniffed and cracked in a switched 
> environment,

Can you expand on this a bit further if you have the time?

> use SSH2 on a non-standard listening port

Why a non-standard port, that won't make a great deal of difference will it?
Anyone capable of successfully cracking a switched environment should be
capable of dealing with a change in port numbers IMHO.

( kept on the list due to SSH being important for Cobalt admin.... and a lot
of people being in switched environments in co-lo facilities I bet )

-- 
Nick Drage - Security Architecture - Demon Internet - Thus PLC
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