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RE: SSH Question: msg#00441

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Subject: RE: SSH Question

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:59, Les Bell wrote:
>
> Shelby Steve-SSHELBY1 <Steve.Shelby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>
> I should have qualified my question - my end goal was for users to use
> windows software, hopefully free, to use SSH for terminal and data transfer
> instead of telnet and ftp. Les I appreciate the client software leads and
> will give them a spin.
> <<
>
> Steve, just remember that Teraterm Pro + TTSH, and (from memory) PuTTY both
> use version 1 or 1.5 of the SSH protocol, and so are vulnerable to the
> attacks I mentioned. You should make sure to caution your users that any
> indication of key mismatches should be a signal to stop what they're doing
> and find out what's going on. Also WinSCP version 1.0 uses password
> authentication only, although version 2.0, which was in beta last time I
> checked can use private keys. I downloaded the beta and gave it a spin and
> it seemed quite stable.
>

PuTTY does SSH2 and can use private keys now.

Stephen




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