| Just possibly because even without encryption of the data stream,
| RSA-user-authentication is much stronger than ".rhosts" files...
| ... and can be used safely from a port number >1023.
I've received a number of responses about this, here's where I'm coming from:
If you're concerned about user authentication to the point where you want to use RSA
keys (which is stronger -- no problems there), you should be concerned enough to want
to encrypt the traffic also.
You're 100% right, there are more features to SSH than just encryption. From my
perspective though, without encryption, there's no point to using SSH. I've never had
a situation where non-encrypted SSH is what I needed. YMMV.
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