[cvsnt] Re: Stataus on SSH?

Christer Grimsæth chrigri at msn.com
Fri Mar 14 09:43:33 GMT 2003


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Thanks again for the fast reply.

One more question:
Do any of you know if the WinCVS list of protocols is "hard coded" ?
Is there any way to get the current WinCVS (1.3.12.1 Beta 12) to connect to
cvsnt with the :sserver protocol?

--
Christer


"Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> wrote in message
news:3e70a81c.177199421 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:10:05 +0100, "Christer Grimsæth" <chrigri at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the reply.
> >
> >Could you give a little more info on :sserver ?
> >If this is _not_ SSH, what do I need on the client then? Anything
external
> >on the server?
> >What kind of encryption is it using? Is it considered safe?
>
> It's SSLv2 (In theory it's capable of SSLv3 but I haven't got that working
> yet).  By default it uses a 1024bit certificate, but you can generate a
longer
> (or shorter) on if you want.
>
> It's 'safe' in that it's pretty hard to break.  Not impossible, but beyond
> your average script kiddie by a long way (in theory if you sniffed the
entire
> session and used a big enough computer you could find the keys).  SSLv3
> doesn't suffer from this problem and I'll be putting that in as soon as I
work
> out how it's done.
>
> ssh is still the most secure for the really paranoid, of course.
>
> >Is it possible to _force_ the usage of one particullar protocol on the
> >server? Or only enable one?
>
> Just delete the protocols you don't want (the protocol_xxx.dll files).
You
> can also force encryption via the control panel.
>
> Tony
>




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