[rescue] SSH through firewall

Big Endian rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 12 11:26:41 CST 2001


>  >~ Is there a better way?  Any ssh clients that allow multiple
>>~ host keys for a host?
>>~
>>
>>I'm no expert, but wouldn't that weaken SSH? The host key is God.
>
>Would it?  Instead of always assuming that host secure.net has key #1,
>you'd still check to be sure that:
>	host secure.net on port 22 has key #1
>	host secure.net on port 1022 has key #2
>	host secure.net on port 2022 has key #3
>	host secure.net on port 3022 has key #4
>
>Multiple keys per hosts, but each key is associated with that host _and_
>port number.  Or does these scheme leave a big hole for a man in the middle
>attack?

Its time for kerberos.

daniel
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