Re: sshd for windows

[Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

Chris,

On 2003-06-19 Chris Berry wrote:
> From: Ansgar Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
> > You do know, that by default Windows is using NTLM authentication for
> > telnet, don't you? Of course that's not comparable to ssh, but it sure
> > is a lot better than plaintext authentication.
>
> Thats totally true, but worthless.  Authentication isn't the problem,
> it's the transmission that's in the clear, so now you're sending your
> loging name and password in cleartext.  Sure, they're stored in NTLMv2
> format at the other end, but what does that matter if they just put a
> sniffer on the wire?

if you had bothered trying before writing this, then you would know that
this is simply not true.
I fully agree that having the session data unencrypted is bad enough,
but authentication is definitely not using plaintext anywhere.

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers

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