full-disclosure - Re: RE : Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....(Answer from PUTTY Staff)

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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 11:03:48 -0400
From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@...ech.edu>
To: Antoine SANTO <Antoine.SANTO@...f.fr>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, anakin@...ox.com
Subject: Re: RE : Putty Proxy
 login/password	discolsure....(Answer from PUTTY Staff)

Why can't you generate the encryption key from a passphrase?

Matthew Flaschen

Antoine SANTO wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I come to report a little strange discolsure discovered by my
>> co-worker Fx0day.
>>
>> When you save session informations under putty and you need proxy
>> for a session,
>> We can find in plain clear text the login and password proxy auth in
>> the windows
>> database register.
>>
>> Strange to see a good ssh client storing plain clear text < hot >
>> informations !!
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no way to encrypt it securely, because there's
> nowhere safe to store an encryption key.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon

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