New trends
New trends
Posted May 14, 2008 16:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: New trends by cyperpunks
Parent article: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge (InformationWeek)
If you're using passphrases rather than passwords (i.e. password-interactive authentication is disabled), then you're safe anyway. It's exactly as hard for a cracker to guess a private key with a passphrase as it is for him to guess one without a passphrase. What the passphrase keeps you safe from is some bastard nicking your key.