Re: one SSH better then the other?

From: Alan J. Flavell (flavell@mail.cern.ch)
Date: 12/20/01 

From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:29:41 +0100

On Dec 13, Dave inscribed on the eternal scroll:

> A comment was made that security
> professionals agree that open source is not secure.

I'd say quite the opposite. Real security professionals know that, in
general, security by obscurity doesn't work - they want open,
peer-reviewed source code.

> Needless to say,
> I was talking about using OpenSSH while they want FSecure.

If they want to pay for it, don't stop them: either way, you'll be
ahead of where you were before.

Hang on, why are you raising this here (c.s.unix)? - there is an SSH
group, you know. x-posted and f'ups set.

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