Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
To: Mipam <mipam@ibb.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/18/2000 09:10:20 
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 12:13:20PM +0100, Mipam wrote:

 > This is pop over ssh and so tcp over tcp.

No, "pop over ssh" is not "tcp over tcp".  The tunnel contains the pop
protocol data, not the TCP protocol data.  And the SSH connection itself
has a protocol of its own.  It's more like "pop over ssh over tcp".

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>