[olug] How secure is SSH?, or Secure File Transfer?

[David Walker]

I haven't had any problems with it.  I use ssh and scp from
www.cygwin.com on my windows machines and they work fine.

It's been reported that there may be some security issues with ssh1 but
the ssh2 protocol is still considered secure by everyone that I know
of.  Even the security issues with ssh1 aren't, if I understand
correctly, exploitable by a script kiddie.

On Thursday 13 September 2001 08:23, you wrote:
> I need remote access to my machine while I'm at work, there's no way around
> it.  I don't like telnetting my passwords and keystrokes to every script
> kiddie with a promiscuous eth-card.  The obvious and easy solution is to
> use SSH.  It's working like a charm for now but let me ask how secure is
> ssh? Has anybody run into any security issues with it?
>
> Also, about remote file transfer.  I don't want to use ftp, and scp is kind
> of a pain (i can get it to work copying from *nix machine to *nix machine,
> but not if one of the machines is a win machine, ie my work machine) so are
> there any alternatives to ftp for secure remote file transfer?
>
> -dave h-

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