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Preventing brute force ssh attacks

Preventing brute force ssh attacks

Posted Oct 25, 2007 22:14 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Preventing brute force ssh attacks by njs
Parent article: Preventing brute force ssh attacks

Hm. Interesting.

Of course the passphrase can be much stronger than a password (since you 
only need to type it in once in a blue moon thanks to ssh-agent), but even 
so, that's food for thought...


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