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Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon
- Subject: Re: Tip: Upgrading the SSH Daemon
- From: Uri Bruck <bruck(at-nospam)actcom.net.il>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 13:29:49 +0200 (EET)
- cc: Linux-IL <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <20011228124835.A15848@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>
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On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> SPOILER WARING
>
> I hope I'm not spoiling anyone's fun, but here's what I would have done:
> Send my packaged locked (with my lock). The receiver can't open this, but
> he can put another lock on the same place (I'm assuming it's a sort of
> hanging lock and there's enough place to hang two locks on the same place -
> I don't know if that is what you meant). He sends this doubly-locked
> package to me, where I take off the original lock I put, and send the
> package back to the receiver. The package is still safe, because it carries
> his lock. The receiver can now take off his lock and take out the stuff
> from the package.
>
> And how is that relevant to Linux? :)
ssh uses cryptography. The above can be used as a model for some forms of
cryptography.
Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net
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