Re: On SSH ports

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:52:32 -0500, Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> said:

Eliot> Egads...  I could argue either side of the port issue for SSH.

Ok, then argue for mine ;-)

Eliot> One the one hand, its primary use in NETWORK devices today is
Eliot> configuration

Please do me a favor and design the protocol to be secure in ways you
don't imagine it being used today.  Because it will be used in new
ways whether you want it to or not.  Every protocol is.  Heck,
consider HTTP which was designed entirely for public access web
servers but is now being used to configure NETWORK devices.

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 and much more difficult to find."  -- Terry Pratchett

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