[Info-vax] SSH on VAX - performance impact of break in attempts

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In article <597dbe84-4845-4c9e-9750-df8a2768f802 at d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>, sampsa <sampsal at gmail.com> writes:
>On Aug 25, 2:36=A0pm, Altivo Overo <t... at altivo.org> wrote:
>> Non-dictionary passwords such as those created by
>> the password generator facility are good protection against this sort of
>> break-in, but won't keep them from trying.
>
>Or only allow public-key authentication. Then they can brute-force
>away all they want :)

I use public key on my laptops to get into my systems.  The key on my system
is stored in an encrypted file system that I must first mount and then use

ssh -i

with the path to the key file.  So, even if the laptop is lost or stolen, I
feel relatively safe that they won't use it to get into my systems.  If the
lost or stolen should happen, I'm sure I will have plenty of time to remove 
the key from the server side.

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