Re: ssh with no encryption ?

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 02/21/03 

From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 21 Feb 2003 18:45:22 GMT

Florence HENRY <Florence.Henry@obspm.fr> writes:

]Hello,

]due to the security policy of my institute, I cannot use ssh when its
]encrypted.

]But I need to login as root on a distant machine, and I don't want its
]password to pass on the network.

Opie/Skey, SRP are two possibilities.
Your instititution is silly, unless they really believe that insiders
are a much bigger threat than outsiders, in which case they are sunk
anyway.

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