Re: Question about SSH, well duh.

From: Fluker (fluker_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 04:53:53 GMT

OK that makes perfect sense. Now is it then possible to go from a SSH
server to yet another trusted SSH server from the client, which would
be like this:
SSH cleint>SSH Server>SSH Server and back again. This would make the
middle SSH Server unable to decrypt teh information, correct?

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:52:37 GMT, Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel@verizon.net> wrote:

>Fluker wrote:
>
>> If corporations are worried about their encrypted data, how do they
>> get around information coming INTO their servers before they get to
>> the client? It seems that is the data isn't encrypted as it comes into
>> the SSH server, the the server has all of that information at will?
>
>The channel is entirely encrypted between your ssh client and when the
>SSH server decodes it to hand to local programs.
>
>> If true, how can the information be encrypted from eyes at the server
>> also?
>
>Really, it can't. Nothing can do this, since any server of any kind
>eventually has to do *something* with the data to be able to use it. If
>you need that level of data security, you need to think about what the
>data is for and what damage can be done with it.

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