<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Kent Borg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kentborg@borg.org" target="_blank">kentborg@borg.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div>On 09/27/2013 03:04 PM, Hal Burgiss
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Kent Borg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kentborg@borg.org" target="_blank">kentborg@borg.org</a>></span>
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<div>On 09/27/2013 11:07 AM, Colin Law wrote:<br>
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I thought that if you used keys for authentication and
have disabled password access (as the OP has done),
then ssh is effectively unbreakable.<br>
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Yes, but now you have shifted the risk to a new location:
your private ssh key.<br>
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<div>The only way to avoid all risk is to unplug.</div>
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Oh, that settles the question.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, it does. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
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<div> Generic advice. You are leaving out two much more important items:<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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1. Pick good passwords, passwords that have components determined
by something actually random, not just passwords that seem obscrue
to you.<br>
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2. Keep your passwords secret--which means don't reuse them across
sites. This is the killer that most people will not do, they would
rather worry about firewalls.<span class="HOEnZb"></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Generic advice. Stop advocating for passwords over ssh keys. <br></div></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Chris<br><br>
</div>"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe." -- Carl Sagan<br><div><br><br></div></div>
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