[olug] SSH question - username encrypted?

[Terry]

I just ran a sniff and my username was no where to be
found.  As I undestand, the two machines exchange
public keys, which sets up the encrypted channel. 
After that, all communications are encrypted.

--- IrishMASMS at olug.org wrote:
> Hey OLUGers:
> 
> When you establish a secure connection with ssh,
> scp, or whatever, is the
> username parameter that gets sent with the command
> encrypted?  Seems like
> it would *not* be, but I haven't been able to find
> information that says
> explicitly whether it is or isn't.
> 
> 
> Irish (at work)
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Terry


	
		
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