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SSH Secure Services on Windows 2K/XP?
jstockdale asks: "Lately I've been working on the security of the few Windows boxes I administer, specifically XP and 2000 stations. I havn't had much of a problem finding decent solutions for file/email/disk encryption (besides the fact that PGP is no longer selling their products), or for smartcard or smartcard+biometric solutions (besides the limitations on key size (2048-bit RSA maximum) and flexability). However when it comes to SSH services for remote administration, windows filesharing, and SFTP for file transfers I have hit a dead end. I have looked into SSH but their SSH for Windows Servers only runs on 2000, and costs $565. I ask what solutions have /.er's found in the realm of ssh network encryption, and also in integrating all these components simply and effectively."
but wait!
:-)
you could still suggest that the he replace all his 2K/XP boxes with Linux, or that he simply take the $565 it costs to get SSH server software for windows and instead get an entry level Dell Poweredge server and install your fav. Linux distro for free!
I am the very model of a modern major general!
On the other hand, we have people who like to code, and don't care so much about the money as much as the respect of their peers and for the beauty of the code.
Obviously you have never looked at the typical open source program. It is some of the UGLIEST code ever written. I'm sure there are some examples of some clean code out there, but all the ones I've looked at have been horrible, kludgy, undocumented pieces of crap. One in particular was Perl 4. Larry Wall might be a language genius, but his code is TERRIBLE. I think you can count the number of comments on one hand.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
It's your bed you lie in it.
It's time to dump your bloated Windows.
Secure * Windows ? is that not an Oxymoron?
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FDISK ... install linux/*bsd :-)