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SSH

Even if the communication to be transmitted were to be line-oriented, the very essence of an encryption algorithm would make it impossible for us to wrap it. Not only must the content be indistinguishable from garbage, it is --as Telnet-- character oriented. Having a wrapper able to detect attacks against this server would be very important, as buffer overflow attacks against SSH linked against the RSA library have been found and not yet been fixed, but it would require a completely different approach than the one this program has, and would require being specific to SSH, unable to be easily extended to support different protocols.



Gunnar Wolf
2001-03-12