Re: [opensuse] SSH Brute Force attacks

15 Apr 2009

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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.

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Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.

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