Re: Need some education: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

2006-08-31 Thread Christ, Bryan
But if Eve is later challenged to prove her identity (that she must now maintain the illusion of being Alice), what prevents Eve from passing the challenge on to the real Alice, getting valid results, and then passing them back to Bob? On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 10:01 +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > B

Re: Need some education: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

2006-08-31 Thread Christ, Bryan
"Only if Eve gets in the way of the very first connection attempt, can he pass her own public key off as Alice's, without Bob detecting it." This is exactly my concern. Isn't that scary? On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:52 -0600, Mark Senior wrote: > On 8/29/06, Chris

Need some education: Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

2006-08-30 Thread Christ, Bryan
All, Please pardon my naivete. I was looking at the diagram on the URL listed below and contemplating how host fingerprinting prevents MITM attacks. http://www.vandyke.com/solutions/ssh_overview/ssh_overview_threats.html So my question is this... Given the illustration in the URL above, what pr

Re: Permission denied - check you console

2006-04-20 Thread Christ, Bryan
gt; > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV tty > > (MAKEDEV is the standard script which populates /dev with device > entries) > > > Also, is devfsd running perchance? > > Mike- > > > > > Christ, Bryan wrote: > > >Yes. I am completely at a

Re: Permission denied, please try again

2006-04-20 Thread Christ, Bryan
, 2006-04-19 at 08:11 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:58:24AM -0500, Christ, Bryan wrote: > > Most of the suggestions I have read say to chmod 666 /dev/tty, but > > my /dev/tty is a directory. > > That's bad. That's very, very bad. I'd

Re: Permission denied, please try again

2006-04-20 Thread Christ, Bryan
--- 1 root root 3, 6 2007-03-21 00:58 s6 crw--- 1 root root 3, 7 2007-03-21 00:58 s7 crw--- 1 root root 3, 8 2007-03-21 00:58 s8 crw--- 1 root root 3, 9 2007-03-21 00:58 s9 On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:11 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 09:58:24AM -0500, Chr

Permission denied, please try again

2006-04-18 Thread Christ, Bryan
Can anyone help? I've started getting this message on my slackware box when trying to ssh out of it. I can ssh in, but not out. After google searching and scanning through the mailing lists, I found some discussions which seem to pertain to udev. The fact that I updated my kernel sometime ago m