[ILUG] Passwordless SSH access (getting long)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting kevin lyda (kevin at suberic.net):

> protocol 1 is less secure.  i think there's a theoretical attack
> against it.

La plus ca change....

There's _always_ been a theoretical attack against it.

> version 2 is better.

One aspect people often forget about --

Protocol family support by OS platform follows:

OS                    2.0     1.5
==                    ===     ===
Amiga OS               -       FC
BeOS                   -       FC
Cisco IOS              -       P 
Java                   PC      FC
Macintosh OS v. < 10   FC      PC
MS-DOS                 -       FC
OpenVMS                -       FC
OS/2                   P       F
PalmOS                 -       FC
Unix incl. MacOS X     F       F
Win16                  PC      FC
Win32                  F       F
WinCE                  -       FC

Key: F=free / open-source software (per DFSG/OSD), C=client-only, P=proprietary
DFSG: http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
OSD: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html