Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 19:17:46
Message-Id: 564242CF.2050602@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning by Jeff Smelser
1 On 11/10/2015 02:00 PM, Jeff Smelser wrote:
2 >
3 > I guess from this your assuming that everyones passwords that have been
4 > hacked are god, birthdays and such?
5 >
6
7 Again: assume that I'm not an idiot, and that I know how to choose a
8 long, random password. It cannot be brute-forced. And if it could,
9 adding an SSH key encrypted with a password of the same length would
10 provide no extra security.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning Jeff Smelser <tradergt@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning Stanislav Nikolov <stanislav.ltb@×××××.com>