Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
To: None <opentrax@email.com>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/20/2000 08:38:14
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:51:02AM -0800, opentrax@email.com wrote:

 > Wait. Are you saying that you would prefer to use "Kerberos" over
 > the "public key authentication" described in SSH2?
 > Do you feel it more secure than SSH2?

Kerberos has a key management infrastructure.  SSH's public key
authentication mechanism does not.  It should be clear which one
is easier to manage in a large installation of systems.

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