OT (way ot, port numbers, security, and other things)

BB brent.bolin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 14:55:40 IST 2006


What are rsa-keys ?

I have a house key and a Honda key only.  Humm.

On 4/12/06, Craig Retief (CSFS) <craig at csfs.co.za> wrote:
>
>
> >BB wrote:
> >> Why ?
> >>
> >> That's called security by obscurity.  It doesn't work.
> >>
> >> Nmap would finger that out in no time.
>
> >Using SSH w/o password authentication - using strictly rsa-keys,
> >disabing root login... I think this would be a better approach. Just my
> >two cents..
>
> This is more like a few thousands worth of "cents" (Dollars/Pounds/etc) to
> some people that don't even know that ssh can be tightened up.
>
> And that is my 2 cents ;-)
>
> Craig
>
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