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Date: Mon Mar 13 19:43:25 2006
From: thotter at gmail.com (Matthijs van Otterdijk)
Subject: HTTP AUTH BASIC monowall.

Well isn't the whole idea of SSH that the connection is encrypted? so it
doesn't matter trough how many compromised networks it goes, since it gets
encrypted at the sending computer and decrypted at the receiving one.

On 3/13/06, Simon Smith <simon@...soft.com> wrote:
>
> List,
>     Does anyone else feel that using HTTP BASIC AUTH for a firewall is a
> bad idea even if it is SSL'd. All basic auth does is creates a hash
> string for username:password using base64. That can easily be reversed
> and the real username and password extracted. Sure it's SSL but can't a
> crafty attacker just create a proxy of sorts on a compromised network
> and intercept the communications? Am I missing something here?
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>         Simon
>
>
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