Netintercept and SSH Decryption

Jonathan Hutchins hutchins at tarcanfel.org
Fri Nov 21 23:42:51 CST 2003


On Friday 21 November 2003 10:21 am, Dustin Decker wrote:

> A quick glance at the product description gives you this:
> Decrypts SSH2 from Modified Servers

> Note that "Modified Servers" is used in this instance.  

Good point, I had not caught that.  So this presumes that it only decrypts 
streams to or from servers that are "owned" (in all it's shiny meanings) by 
the monitoring party.  It also suggests that they haven't actually cracked 
SSH2, but have a modification that makes a connection look like SSH2 but 
which contains some sort of "back door" secondary key.

So my SSH link to my hope PC is still secure (?)... for now.




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