17 Dec
2009
17 Dec
'09
9:57 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:48:59PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:32:08AM +0000, Chris G wrote:
passphrase encryption to protect it. With password login there is nothing written down or in a file, it's simply in your head.
Utter nonsense, of course the password is in a file (ok, not in a form that is simple to read back out again) if it wasn't then you couldn't authenticate using it, i'd think from reading your reply that you are only really considering half the scenario.
No it isn't. It's in a file *at the other end* totally inaccessible to the intruder until he's guessed it. The private key on the other had *is* at the end where the intruder is so has to be encrypted.
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Chris Green