[ILUG] SSH dictionary attacks.

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Aine Douglas wrote:

> On 8/23/06, paul at clubi.ie <paul at clubi.ie> wrote:

>> No you can't, not for ssh keys in the actual "SSH key" sense!
                                                 ^^^^^^^^

> I'd challenge that. The largest, and probably disproportionately 
> most expensive PKI system

Just to be clear, we are talking about SSH right? The ssh which 
supports several public key mechs (not all of which involve PKI, 
particularly not the commonly used ssh keys (ssh-dss, ssh-rsa) - see 
the 'ssh-keygen' manual page?

> Sing up at www.ros.ie and try and change the password for that 
> PKCS12 file outside of the ROS system. Can't be done with any 
> PKCS12 tool available.

Can I use that cert to ssh into www.ros.ie? :)

Does ssh even support pkcs#12?

/me confused...

If you mean passwords generally, sounds great - but what's the catch? 
:)

> Similar devices are at the disposal of all CA operators....

Neat.

PKI though for some reason seems to be difficult to deploy. It (or 
more likely, the tools) seem to have significant operational 
deployment overheads, or the perception of anyway.

regards,
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