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Re: [opensuse] SSH Brute Force attacks
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:04:56 +0200 (CEST)
  • Message-id: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0904151403270.20128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wednesday, 2009-04-15 at 13:38 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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A typical approach on 'brute force' is to reduce the used space. I think I have actually never seen a real brute force against my ssh server. It's typically based on dictionary attacks.

You can not use a dictionary attack to break ssh keys, just passwords.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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