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On Monday 01 December 2003 21:51, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > Thats a very good question. In this case you'd have to go thru an admin
> > for it to work, which would firstly produce a bottleneck, and secondly
> > create more oppertunities for a possible security breach I think. The
> > initial send of the ssh key would have to be verified as coming from a
> > valid source (to stop some social engineering/taking advantage of
> > timing).
>
> DCC the ssh key through IRC or GPG sign an email with it. Not too
> complicated. SSH keys are short enough one could simply paste them in a
> chat anyway... --

considering his initial points:
(1) admin is bottleneck
(2) verifying the key wasnt messed with in transit
your solution really doesnt address either ... in fact the irc thing is a 
*really bad* idea ...
after all, dcc/irc is as easy to manipulate as telnet (well even easier :D)
- -mike
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