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OpenSSH and keystroke timings

OpenSSH and keystroke timings

Posted Sep 18, 2008 4:54 UTC (Thu) by jimbo (subscriber, #6689)
In reply to: OpenSSH and keystroke timings by bronson
Parent article: OpenSSH and keystroke timings

I'm not a network expert, but aren't the SSH packets themselves encrypted?

It might be practicable to add noise into the plain text of a short packet, encrypt the whole thing (including the noise). The packet can then be decrypted, and the actual data extracted for use by the application.
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Jimbo


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OpenSSH and keystroke timings

Posted Sep 18, 2008 7:15 UTC (Thu) by bboissin (subscriber, #29506) [Link]

The problem is the timing between packets, not the encryption.

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