Subject: Re: FreSSH
To: NetBSD-current Discussion List <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/10/2002 11:07:25
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:00:22PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> But consider something like staging files to a web server.  The
> information is going to be public anyway, so why encrypt it? 

The information being public isn't the problem.

But an unencrypted TCP session can be hijacked by a third party on an
intermediate machine, afaict.

	-is