ssh clarification needed

Mike Cloaked mike.cloaked at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 20:33:08 UTC 2009




Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> 
>> > > I'll need to read up on storing them on a usb stick.  At least losing
>> the
>> > > stick will not make the connection unsafe :-) - I'm unlikely to lose
>> the
>> > > laptop and stick at the same time.
>> >
>> > hmmmm
>> > laptop without keys are unusefull to connect to your servers, but keys
>> > without laptop are useful
>> >
>> Hmm - Is there no reasonably safe way of doing this?  There seems to be
>> some 
>> risk with everything.   I've not lost a usb stick yet, but one can never 
>> guarantee that one won't.
> Are you suggesting that decrypting the ssh keys are a feasable activity?
> I doubt it.
> 
> 

I doubt it too - but having the keys means you can use them to login in as
if the original owner!
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