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Re: [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..



On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:11:48AM -0800, Dana Quinn wrote:
> Make it so people only have access to a keygen binary that requires a
> password.  I'm aware of a large company that does this fairly
> successfully.  Could get unwieldy as you need to cover all the
> possible OSs that people might use to generate...

My perspective may be warped beyond any rational expectation here, but
that doesn't seem plausible.  For example, I run FreeBSD on my laptop,
and generally track both STABLE & CURRENT (on different slices) on a
(usually) daily basis.  And I keep a private mirror of the FreeBSD CVS
repository on the same laptop (also updated on the same basis).

Point is, I don't normally keep the binaries longer than a day before
they're rebuilt anyway.  And I control what binaries run on my
(personal) laptop, and I control what sources are used to build the
binaries....

Peace,
david
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
Believe SORBS at your own risk: 63.193.123.122 has been static since Aug 1999.

See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.

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