Re: evaluate the best SSH client (was: Print in PuTTy)

From: Dimitri Maziuk (dima_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:30:35 +0000 (UTC)

Richard E Silverman sez:
>>>>>> "DM" == Dimitri Maziuk <dima@127.0.0.1> writes:
>
> DM> The problem with that argument is that "must support" is a
> DM> requirement of the protocol whereas "enabled" is a run-time
> DM> configuration issue.

> That would be meaningless.
...

Yep.

> Besides, since there *is* no other broadly used public-key mechanism used
> to authenticate user access on Unix machines, if this were a "requirement"
> no one would ever have used SSH public-key authentication. How, exactly,
> would that have been an improvement?

I'm not saying anything about improvement. I'm saying the critique
is valid.

Dima 

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