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Security Focus Interviews Damien Miller

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bread-and-butter dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The upcoming version 4.3 of OpenSSH will add support for tunneling allowing you to make a real VPN using OpenSSH without the need for any additional software. This is one of the features discussed in SecurityFocus' interview of OpenSSH developer Damien Miller. The interview touches on, among other things, public key crypto protocols details, timing based attacks and anti-worm measures."

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  1. Re:Effective cryptography is a hard problem. by blahnana · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Most experts agree the product of the best cryptography will be indistinguishable from random noise. This means that it is difficult to share the benefits of compression with file encryption


    Surely not if you compress it and _then_ encrypt it?
  2. Re:Hacker Summary by interiot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Holy cow, that's very convenient indeed. Though, most likely this will only make IT firewall admins scowl even more at the mention of SSH forwarding.