17 Dec
2009
17 Dec
'09
10:28 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:57:08PM +0000, Chris G 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.
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.
Can you spot the contradiction?
Adam
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